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185
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 to the College of Surgeons.
Gentlemen,
In my last Annual Report I remarked that
the year 187 6 had been a healthy year, both for the
Metropolis and for our own Parish. The general
healthiness of the year which has just elapsed, has.
I am glad to say, been still more pronounced, and
this notwithstanding the epidemic prevalence of
Small Pox during the whole period.
The population of London at the taking of
the Census in 1871 was 3,254,260 ; its estimated