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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.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
I have the honour to submit my Nineteenth Annual Report
on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey during
the year 1919. The death-rate was 14.1, compared with 22.0 in
1918, and 18.8 in 1917.
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.
I wish once more to record that between the Chairman and
Members of the Public Health Committee and myself, there has
been the usual cordial co-operation during the year under report.
The staff of the Department has also shown itself most
willing to fall in with the various new and additional duties cast
upon them, and have done their part loyally in the promotion of
the Public Health of Bermondsey.
I am, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
R. KING BBOWN.