Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of Bermondsey for the year 1885.

Bermondsey (London, England). Parish. Vestry.

Date:: [1886]

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Credit: Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of Bermondsey for the year 1885. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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ANNUAL REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER. TO THE VESTRY OF BERMONDSEY. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, The following Report embraces a period of fifty-two weeks, which ended on the Second day of January, 1886. It is the Tenth Annual Statement of the vital statistics of the Parish of Bermondsey, which it has been my duty to submit to the Vestry. The low rate of mortality from all causes which prevailed in 1884, shewed a further decline in 1885. This is especially remarkable in the number of deaths from diseases of the zymotic class which fell during the past year to a point which is without parallel in the records of the last quarter of a century. The low birth-rates of recent years have led to a corresponding reduction in the proportion of infants and young children existing in the population. This may account for some part of the diminished mortality. The improved isolation effected by the removal of patients to hospitals