Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of Bermondsey for the year 1895.

  • Bermondsey (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of Bermondsey for the year 1895. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNUAL REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH. TO THE VESTRY OF BERMONDSEY. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I have the honour of submitting my Twentieth Annual Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of Bermondsey. It includes the registration year of 1895, or a period of 52 weeks that ended on the 28th day of December last. The general mortality of the year exceeded that of 1894 by 135 deaths, and was also slightly above the average of the last three years. The excess occurred mainly in the first and last quarters of the year, and may be justly attributed to exceptional states of the weather rather than to any increase in those diseases which are most likely to be influenced by sanitary regulations. An increase in the number of deaths from measles was counter-balanced by a