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79
MEDICAL OFFICER'S
ANNUAL REPORT
BY
J. S. BRISTOWE, M.D., Lond.,
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; Physician to, and Lecturer on Medicine at
St. Thomas's Hospital; Examiner in Medicine at the College of Surgeons.
Gentlemen,
The year 1876 was a healthy year for the
Metropolis. According to the Registrar-General's
Returns, the birth-rate was 36.5 per 1,000, and the
death rate 22.3 per 1,000; moreover the deaths
from each of the zymotic diseases were below the
average of the preceding 10 years. And, indeed, notwithstanding
the prevalence of Small Pox during the
last three months of the year, the deaths from it were
only 735, which is less than half the corrected
average yearly mortality from this disease.
Each of the five groups of districts shared in the