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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lee 1896
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lee]
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112 new houses built, inhabited and certified as having an efficient
water supply during 1896.
On this subject, the following figures show the steady growth of the parish:—
| 1893 | 93 |
| 1894 | 49 |
| 1895 | 75 |
| 1896 | 112 |
so that the parish may be considered as a very healthy one, with
so large an increase and so small a death rate.
7. As usual, the Infant Death Rate is high, as in all parishes,
and this year numbers 55 under one year, giving a ratio of 14.3
per thousand of births registered. Many of these are in very
young infants—many prematurely born, or only having lived a few
hours or days, and dying from no particular disease; and 36 are
in people over 65 years of age—many of these at a great age>
one in particular as old as 99. Eliminate these, and there are
only 109, which is a very good record.
8. The Outlying Institutions concerned with the numbers are as follows :—
| M.A.B. Fever Hospital | 5 |
| Woolwich Union | 15 |
| Seamen's Hospital | 3 |
| St. Thomas Hospital | 2 |
| Guy's Hospital | 3 |
| King's Hospital | 1 |
| Royal Free Hospital | 1 |
| Miller Hospital | 1 |
| Cane Hill Asylum | I |
| Salvation Army Rescue Home | 1 |
| River Thames | 1 |
| South Eastern Railway | 1 |
| 35 |