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the single exception of the Western group, and less than
that of London as a whole. The respective mortuary rates,
according to the Registrar General, were as follows:—
London 2.462; West districts 2.301; North districts
2.454; Central districts 2.697; Eastern districts 2.644, and
Southern districts 2.323.
If now we come to the examination of our own parish,
we find there an at least equally satisfactory state of health
We find, as regards zymotic diseases, that although, since
1864, deaths from measles have increased from 29 to 39,
and deaths from small-pox from 10 to 12; deaths from
diphtheria have sunk from 16 to 14, deaths from hooping
cough from 61 to 52, deaths from scarlet fever from 83 to
55, and deaths from fever from 51 to 31. And we find
further that, although a larger total number of deaths
occurred in 1865 than in 1864 (1907 in the former year,
and 1843 in the latter year) the increase was no more than
can be fairly accounted for by increase of population.
I have pointed out in former reports how difficult it is to
estimate the population of the several out-lying, semirural
districts of the Metropolis, and that the calculation
of their death-rates is therefore liable to grave error. I
have given on former occasions, and I give now, three
different estimates of the population of this parish, one
founded on the rate of increase, between the years 1851
and 1861, of the Southern districts of the Metropolis; the
second founded on the rate of increase, between the same
dates, of Camberwell itself; the third founded on the
number of births which took place in the year 1865. The