Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]
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A comparison of the totals under the head of Increase, shows that the population is
steadily increasing, first by natural means, and secondly by a less number of deaths occurring
in the Parish.
Deaths of Parishioners in Out-lying Institutions.
The list supplied from Somerset House gives 69, which are distributed as follows:—
Guy's Hospital
26
London Hospital
6
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
6
Children's Hospital, Shadwell
3
Royal Hospital for Incurables
2
King's College Hospital
1
St. Thomas's Hospital
1
Great Northern Fever Hospital
1
City of London Chest Hospital
1
Brompton Hospital
1
The Infirmary, Horselydown
4
,, Bermondsey
9
,, St. John's
1
Baths and Wash-houses, Whitechapel
1
The Infirmary, Camberwell
2
County Lunatic Asylum
1
Peckham House Asylum
1
Middlesex Asylum, Wandsworth
1
Deaths of Non-Parishioners.
The number of persons (non-parishioners) who have died in the Parish is 160, a marked
increase as compared with the 124 of last year. Of this number 142 died in the infirmary;
121 from Bermondsey, 12 from St. John's, 6 from St. Olave's, 1 from St. Thomas's, 1 from
Southwark, and 1 from Horselydown. Ten deaths occurred in the Docks, 7 in the Thames,
and 1 on the Main Road.