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ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
Being the Report for the Year 1895.
To the Members of the Board of Works for the St. Olave District,
Southwark.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to place before you my
second Annual Report. This Report, in accordance with the
regulations of the Local Government Board, deals with the
twelve months ending December 31st, 1895.
VITAL STATISTICS.
I have based the calculations in the following Reports
upon the population of all ages as usually estimated to the
middle of the year 1895. This is 13,065. The number of
inhabited houses in April, 1891—according to the census
return—was 2,083, an increase of 36 per cent, in ten years;
and the average number of persons to a house was 6.l.
1,054 persons were living in 460 tenements of only one
room, and 3,207 were living in 794 two-room tenements.
Rather more than one-third of the whole population were in
tenements with one or two rooms. More than half of the
persons in these tenements were subject to the conditions