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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 11
parish of Saint Dearne the Martnr, Snuthwark.
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING LADY-DAY, 1860.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
The time has arrived to bring before you my first Annual Report. In it I shall
endeavour to lay before you the sanitary condition of this district.
In the year now ended, the deaths have been 1384, and the births 2029, giving an
excess of the latter over the former of 615. And here I must remark that the mortality of
the past year, as compared with that of 1857 and previous years, appears greater than it
would have done had I been able to compare it with that of 1858. But owing to causes
over which I have had no control, and which are well known to the vestry, I am not in
possession of the statistics that would show the mortality of the year to which I allude.
In estimating the increase or decrease of mortality, it is necessary to take into
consideration the increase of the population. For, although the number of deaths registered
be greater, the rate of mortality may be less. Table No. 1 shows the number of births
and of deaths in each quarter during the times specified, also the total number of births and
deaths in each year. You will observe that, as far as a comparison can be made between
the two last years, it is favourable to the year now ended.
TABLE No. 1.
1857—58
1858—59
1859—60
BIRTHS
DEATHS
BIRTHS
DEATHS
BIRTHS
DEATHS
M.
F.
Total
M.
F.
Total
M.
F.
Total
M.
F.
Total
M.
F.
Total
M.
F.
Total
Quarter
Ending June, 1857
250
225
475
148
151
299
243
222
465
155
141
296
257
268
525
129
167
296
Quarter
Ending Sept., 1857
234
231
465
135
141
276
211
206
417
172
197
369
260
204
464
181
166
347
Quarter
Ending Dec., 1857
251
250
501
177
166
343
247
251
498
192
183
375
232
265
497
197
163
360
Quarter
Ending March, 1858
289
251
540
179
159
338
288
255
543
203
178
381
TOTAL
1024
957
1981
G39
617
1256
1037
992
2029
710
674
1384