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Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my Fifteenth Annual Report on
the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey during the
year 1915. The death-rate was 21.4, compared with 17.6 in
1914 and 17.98 in 1913, which was the only occasion in which it
was lower than the year under report.
The increase in the death-rate is discussed in an early section.
The sections of the report are, as usual, divided into: —
I. —Vital Statistics.
II.—Notification of Infectious Diseases.
III.—Sanitary Administration.
IV.—Factories and Workshops.
In the Appendix will be found the Local Government Board
Tables, including a special Table on Infantile Mortality.
Since writing my last report we lost the remainder of our permanent
clerical staff, as Mr. Bush, the senior clerk, joined His
Majesty's Forces early in the year, and the office lad found a better
situation. Their places have now been filled by temporary staff,
but, as explained in the last report, the temporary staff, no matter
how willing, cannot replace the permanent staff, but notwithstand-