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The deaths were distributed according to age as follows:—
427 deaths occurred in children under 5 years of age, 49 took
place between 5 and 10, 20 between 10 and 15, 22 between
15 and 20, 67 between 20 and 30, 104 between 30 and 40,
92 between 40 and 50, 103 between 50 and 60, 116 between
60 and 70, and 182 in old persons of 70 years and upwards.
Eighty-five deaths are placed under the head of " violence,
privation, poison and premature birth;"19 under that of
"fever;" 7 under that of " dysentery, and acute diarrhoea (not
of infants;") 30 under that of "scarlet fever and cynanche
maligna;" 5 under that of "small pox;" 26 under that of
"erysipelas, pyœmia, and puerperal fever ' 104 under that of
"diarrhoea, bronchitis, and pneumonia of infants under three
years of age;" 100 under that of " measles, hooping cough, and
croup;" 90 under that of "hydrophobia and convulsions of
infancy;" 105 under that of " phthisis and other tubercular diseases
and 552 under that of " other diseases, chiefly chronic,"
in which are included most of those chest complaints which
proved so fatal during the late cold weather. (Tables I & II.)
The mortality varied somewhat during the different quarters.
313 deaths were registered in the first quarter of the year;
296 in the second; 272 in the third; and 302 in the fourth.
So that the highest mortality corresponded, as is usual, except
in years when epidemics prevail, to the most inclement
seasons. (Table III.)
The fourth table has been framed to exhibit the total number
of deaths due to what the registrar-general terms the zymotic
class of diseases, the total number due to each disease comprised
in that class, and the proportions in which they were
distributed through the several sub-districts of the parish.
From this table you will learn, that while no deaths from these
causes occurred in Dulwich, 38 were ascribed to them in Camberwell,
44 in St. George's, and 81 in Peckham. Scarlet fever
prevailed both in Camberwell, in Peckham, and in St. George's,
but was most fatal in St. George's. Hooping cough and
measles were epidemic in the same districts, but were far
more fatal in Peckham than in the two other districts together.
During the past year, 2313 houses, chiefly of the poorer class,
were visited and reported on by the Inspectors of Nuisances
under my superintendence. On the strength of the reports,