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REPORT
to
The Board of Works for the Lewisham District
TO THE END OF THE YEAR 1895,
by
Dr. S. BLAKE JOLLY,
Medical Officer of Health for the District.
Gentlemen,
The number of de;iths registered us having occurred in
the Lewisham District during the year 1895 was 1456. Of
these 59 were of persons who did not belong to this District,
while, on the other hand, 99 persons belonging to the District
died in hospitals and asylums outside, making the actual
total of deaths 1496, as against 1404 in the previous year,
and the corrected death rate for 1895 14 44 per 1000, as
compared with 14-0 per 1000 in 1894.
There has been no outbreak of zymotic disease in 1895.
There have been 837 cases of scarlet fever notified during
the year, against 312 notifications of this disease in 1894 ;
but the disease was as a rule of a still milder type, there
being only 9 deaths, against 12 in 1894.
There have been 135 notifications of diphtheria, with
17 deaths, against 172 notifications and 35 deaths in 1894.
The smaller number of deaths in this disease is to a great
extent due to the severe cases among the poor having been,
in most cases, removed to hospital at once. There were 53
cases of typhoid notified, with 9 deaths, against 63 cases in
1894, with 15 deaths. Only 2 cases of small-pox were
notified during 1895. Thus on the whole there has been a
decrease in the notifications of zymotic diseases, and also in the
death rate from that cause. Influenza, on the contrary, was