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R E P O R T
TO
The Board of Works for the Lewisham District
TO THE END OF THE YEAR 1891,
BY
Dr. S. BLAKE JOLLY,
Medical Officer of Health for the District.
Gentlemen,
The sanitary condition of the Lewisham District during
the year 1891 has once more kept up to its high standard.
Daring the year there has been no epidemic of Zymotic
Disease, and this is the more satisfactory when one notes the
serious outbreak of typhoid fever which was raging for some
Period on the very borders of our District.
The number of deaths from zymotic disease has in each
instance been less than in the previous year.
The District has again suffered from the epidemic of
Influenza, and has been attacked more severely than in the
previous year: 55 deaths being attributed directly to this
disease against 18 deaths in 1890.
The death rate for 1891 is 14.5 per 1000, as compared
with 13.9 per 1000 for 1890. This rise in the death rate
is, however, only apparent and not actual. It is due to the
difference in population, according to the Census of 1891,