[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Saviour's].

  • St. Saviour's District (London, England). Board of Works.
Date:
1881
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Saviour's]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: City of London, London Metropolitan Archives

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    8 MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT. Gentlemen, I have the honour to place before you to-day the twenty-fifth Annual Report of the Sanitary condition of the St. Saviour's District. During the past year there were causes of disease in operation from which, if they could have been foreseen, we should have predicted a probable increase of mortality. In large towns, and especially in such districts as this, the wear and tear of the physical frame demand a good deal of animal food. This, from the almost unprecedented price of meat, the poor have been unable to obtain. The commencement and the close of the year were marked by such a prevalence of dense fog that, during one week, twenty-six deaths were caused by diseases of the respiratory organs alone. It is satisfactory, therefore, that I am enabled to report a diminu tion of eighty-one deaths as compared with the year preceding. The registered number of deaths which occurred in Christ church was 382, and in St. Saviour's 316, making a total of 698 deaths. The total number of births was 1,013, comprised in the following details:— Christchurch Males 242 Females 237 479 St. Saviour Males 266 Females 268 534 1,013
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