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I; Baths and Wash-houses, Whitechapel, i; Camberwell Infirmary 2; County
Lunatic Asylum, i; Peckham House Asylum, i; and Middlesex Asylum
Wandsworth, i.
Deaths in Rotherhithe of Non-Parishioners.
These include 112 persons whose deaths are registered from the Infirmary of
whom 95 were from Bermondsey; 11 from St. John's ; 3 from St. Olave's; I from
Deptford ; 1 from Horselydown ; and 1 from St Thomas's. Eleven persons found
drowned in the Docks and River Thames, and 1 person killed by falling from main
top-sail. The total number is 124, as compared with 137 of the previous year
the decrease being partially due to a smaller number of deaths in the Docks; for
whereas there were 25 deaths in the Docks from drowning and falls in Ships,
noticed in my report for 1887-8, this year (1888-9) there are only 18.
Birth-rate.
The Birth-rate per thousand per annum is 32.4.
Death-rate.
The Death-rate per thousand per annum is 17.9. This rate is ascertained by
adding the deaths of Parishioners in outlying Institutions to the number registered
in the Parish, and deducting from this total, those of Non-Parishioners, thus : —
850 + 69 - 124 = 795.
Uncertified Deaths.
In this year there have been five deaths not legally certified ; all of them being
of children, a few hours or a few days old. Last year all the causes of death were
legally certified either by the Coroner or a Medical Practitioner.
Inquests.
Fifty-six inquests have been held ; the verdicts were as follows :—Drowned
in the River Thames and Surrey Commercial Docks, 16; Convulsions, 11;
Suffocated in bed by overlying, 4; Natural causes, 3; Concussion of brain from
fall, 3; Sudden syncope, 2; Accidentally burnt, 2; General debility, 2; Senile
decay, hanging, killed in Upper Globe Wharf, Syphilis, injuries from falling from
main top-sail yard, injuries received eight months ago, mentally deranged, Apoplexy,
rupture of Aneurism of Aorta, run over by a van, fall down stairs, exhaustion from
fracture of thigh caused by accidental fall in the street.
Zymotic Diseases.
The deaths due to these diseases are :—Diarrhœa, 30, (all these cases were
infants); Measles, 17; in eleven of these, the measles were complicated either