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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 Seventeenth Annual Report
on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey during
the year 1917. The death-rate was 18.8, compared with 17.2 in
1916 and 21.4 in 1915.
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.
Partly owing to paper shortage and the difficulty of getting
printing done, also much of the time of the clerical staff
being taken up with the Food Control and the Defence of the
Realm Acts, I have found it necessary to cut down my Annual
Report considerably. If reports of this kind are too long
delayed, all interest vanishes, and as it is I am afraid that the