London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Rotherhithe 1891

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

16
Diseases of the Respiratory Organs.
The number of deaths resulting from the above-named complaints is 306, as compared
with 326 for the previous year. This number includes the deaths of parishioners in
Outlying Institutions. The death rate per thousand per annum from all forms of lung
mischief is 6.7.

Table: In the appended list is given the diseases notified, with the names of the streets, roads, places, lanes, buildings, &c., in which they occurred.

In the appended list is given the diseases notified, with the names of the streets, roads, places, lanes, buildings, &c., in which they occurred.

Name of Place.Small Pox.Scarlet Fever.Cholera.Typhus Fever.Enteric Fever.Diphtheria.Puerperal Fever.Other Fevers.Erysipelas.MembranousCroupTotals.
Abbeyfield Road31..................6...10
Acorn Place..............................–
Adam's Gardens...........................–
Adam Street58......1.........217
Ainsty Street...1......1...............2
Albion Street...3........................3
Aspinden Road........................33
Berkley Street...........................—
Bracton Road...8......1............9
Bramcote Road...1.....................1
Bush Road...........................—
Canute Street........................11
Chilton Street............201............21
Church Street...............1.........1
Clare Hall Place...........................—
Claremont Place...............1.........1
Clarence Street...............1.........2
Clark's Orchard...........................11
Commercial Docks........................11
Cope Street...........................–
Corbett's Lane...2.....................2
Cow Lane...........................–
Cranham Road........................3...3
Cranswick Road...5.....................5
Credon Road...2..................1...3
Croft Street............7............7
Culling Road...3..................25
Debnam Road...5........................5
Delaford Road...........................–
Derrick Street...............1......12
Dilston Grove...1........................1
Dodd's Place...........................–
Elephant Lane...........................–
Elgar Street...........................–
Eugenia Road...10......153.........28
Faustin Place...........................–
...........................

Text

Copy text to clipboard

Bake-houses
Have been twice inspected.
Slaughter-houses and Cow-sheds
Have been inspected.