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REPORT
TO
(The Hoard of Works for the Lewisham District.)
TO THE END OP THE YEAR 1892,
BY
Dr. S. BLAKE JOLLY,
Medical Officer of Health for the District.
Gentlemen,
The number of denths registered in the District during
the year 1892 was 1397, being 42 more thun the number
registered during the previous year, and making the death
rate 14.8 per 1000, as compared with 20.6 per 1000 for
London and 20 7 per 1000 for the 33 great towns.
This slight iucrease of 3 per 1000 in the death rate is
accounted for by the recurrence of the epidemic of Influenza,
which was directly responsible for 74 deaths in 1892 as compared
with 55 deaths in 1891, and 18 deaths in 1890; and
also a large infant mortality from Whooping Cough, there
being 67 deaths from this disease ugainst 29 in the previous
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The District during the year has been in a most satisfactory
sanitary condition.
The number of deaths from zymotic disease, though
higher than in the previous year, compare very favourably
with other London districts.
In London, and in fact all over the country, there has
been, during 1892, a very large amount of Zymotic Disease
(more particularly diphtheria and scarlet fever), and this
District has not altogether escaped. In spite of this, however,
there have been only four deaths from scarlet fever and