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tire Parish, being apparently higher than usual, 246 per ten
thousand arising partly from fifty-three weeks, being included in
this year instead of fifty-two, and from the population being
really greater than stated. For in the seven years the number
of births in the Parish have increased twenty-five percent. and
if the population has increased in the same ratio, the population
would amount to upwards of 215,000, instead of 180,290
persons, which would give an exceedingly favourable death-rate;
but even taking the population at having increased to only
180,290, the annual death-rate of Lambeth for a number of
years past, compares favourably with that of the whole of
England, which is the more remarkable as the death-rate of
most town districts, owing in a great measure to density of
population is high. The Registrar General has shown that with
the exception of the West district of the Metropolis, the South
district, of which Lambeth forms a part, has been the most
healthy every year for the last six years. In his summary of
weekly returns for the Metropolis for the year, he remarks "the
improvement in the annual rate of mortality, is most striking in
South London where the Sewage stagnated, and the water supply
was drawn directly from the Thames, charged with Sewage
down to year 185G. The mortality there was at the rate of 38
and 35 per thousand, in the years 1849 and 1854 ; during the
average of five years 1840-44, it was 25, of five years, l845-49,
it was 28, and during the five years, 1850-54, it was 26; in 185559,
it fell to 23; in 1860-64, it was 23; and in 1865 68, it
ranged from 22 to 24; in the last year it was 23. The mortality
is now lower in South London then it is in North
London."
The deaths from Epidemic diseases during 1868, are shown in
Table IV, they amounted to 997, and were in the proportion
of nearly 22½ per cent of the mortality from all causes.
The number of deaths from Diarrhoea were 261, Whooping
Cough 211, Scarlet Fever 192, Fever 155, Measles 120, Small