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REPORT
OF
PUBLIC HEALTH COMMITTEE.
Having regard to the serious nature of some parts of the
Medical Officer's Report for 1896, for which report he alone
is responsible, and with some portions of which report they do
not agree, the Committee consider it right that they should
also present a report upon the Health of the Parish, and the
work of the Committee.
General Health Statistics.
1. Although the Birth Bate 32.7, as against 30.2 in London,
as a whole, is higher than it has been for the past two years,
and the actual number of births the greatest on record, yet
the death-rate 15.6 was lower than the preceding year, 1895,
and bears most favourable comparison with that in the other
43 Sanitary Areas in the Metropolis, there being, after correction
for age distribution, three only out of the 44 areas, having
a lower death-rate; and the death-rate for the whole parish is
still continuing to improve.
It is satisfactory to note that there has been no recurrence
of the attack of typhoid fever which affected the parish in
1895, and that during the year there has been no epidemic of