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4 Parish of Saint George the Martyr, Southwark.
I have striven to make these Reports as interesting, as suggestive, and as useful as
lay within my power. They seem small matters, yet do they cost much time and labour.
I consider it right to tell you, that every requisite sanitary duty during my illness has
been attended to and rigidly carried out: with reference to this matter nothing has been
neglected, for if I had known that my duties were not being performed, I should at once
have sent in my resignation.

In the year that ended Saturday, April 4th, the births registered in this District were
2084, of this number 1032 were males, and 1052 were females. During the same period
the deaths have been 1256, of these 632 were males, and 624 were females. The excess
of births over deaths was 828. Thus the births have been 32 less than in the preceding
year, and the deaths 137 more. Only in one year during the last ten have the deaths been
less, and only in one year has there been a larger excess of births, and that was the year
1872-3. The variation of the death rate from the highest to the lowest in these years was 621.