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REPORT TO THE VESTRY OF ROTHERHITHE
ON
THE SANITARY CONDITION AND VITAL STATISTICS
OF THE
PARISH OF ROTHERHITHE, SURREY,
FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR 1880.
BY
BENJ. BROWNING, M.D., S.Sc.C.Edin., L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng,, F.C.S., &c,,
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
Gentlemen,
In submitting to you my Annual Sanitary Report, which, for this
year 1879-80, includes 53 weeks, I must ask you to remember that the "total" figures
are necessarily larger than usual, though the "several rates" are corrected so as to be
directly comparable with those of the average years calculated as 52 weeks, and therefore
may be studied as an amplification of the statements afforded you by the Registrar
General.
Having last year somewhat exhaustively described our locality and its general
health status, I shall now briefly recount our leading vital statistics, and request your
special attention to the results of the working of certain changes and additions in the
Sanitary Laws you have to administer, which recently came into force.
I may state, that in common with the whole Metropolis, we experienced an
increase c»f our gross mortality, while our birth rate was practically stationary.
I estimate our stationary and floating population on the usual plan, as 33563,
and its ratio to the inhabitants of London as about 1 to 108.