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1863, to 564 in 1864, deaths from scarlet fever from 5075 to
3242, and deaths from small-pox from 2012 to 537.
It will be observed that the rate of mortality was lower in
the Southern districts of London than in any other districts
except the Western, and that the difference between the Southern
and the Western districts was in this respect exceedingly
small; it will be observed also that the fever mortality of the
Southern districts was less than the fever mortality of the Northern
and of the Eastern districts, but higher than that of the
Central and of the Western districts.
In the parish of Camberwell, as in other parts of London, the
mortality of 1864 was greater than that of 1863, or indeed than
that of any other year since the Metropolis Local Management
Act came into operation. (Tables I, II, III, V & VI.) In
1863, 1731 deaths were registered in the parish, in 1864 the registered
deaths amounted to 1843; there was therefore during
that year an increase of 112 deaths. In the sub-districts also there
was generally an increase; the total number of deaths registered
for Dulwich was 24 (an increase of 2 on the number registered
in the previous year); the total registered for the sub-district of
Camberwell was 632 (an increase of 72); the total registered
for Peckham was 673 (a diminution of 26); and the total registered
for St. George's was 514 (an increase of 64). But of
the 632 deaths ascribed to Camberwell proper, 123 occurred in
the Workhouse and 73 in the Lunatic asylums. These however
belong clearly no more to this sub-district than to the other
sub-districts of the parish, and should therefore, for purposes
of comparison, be distributed proportionately among them. If
such a distribution be made,* the year's mortality becomes, for
* This distribution has been made by dividing the deaths occurring in
the Workhouse and Asylums among the sub-distriets, in proportion to the
number of deaths (exclusive of these) returned from each.