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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 Twenty-third Annual Report
on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey during
the year 1923. The death-rate was 12.1 compared with 16.7 in
1922, and 13.7 in 1921. This is the lowest death-rate yet
recorded in Bermondsey.
The Infantile Mortality Rate was 76 compared with 102 the
previous year, and is also the lowest infantile mortality on
record in Bermondsey. This is very satisfactory, and shows that
our efforts to improve the sanitary conditions of Bermondsey
have not been wasted.
The sections of the report are, as usual, divided into:—
I.—Vital Statistics.
ll.—Notification of Infectious Diseases.
lll.—Sanitary Administration.
IV. —Factories and Workshops.
At the end of the Report will be found three Special Reports,
one from Dr. D. M. Connan, the Deputy Medical Officer of
Health, on Tuberculosis, one from Dr. Mildred A. Thynne, the