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diminished in Camberwell from 673 to 669, but they increased
in Dulwich from 32 to 33, in Peckham from 740 to
745, and in St. George's from 605 to 609. Of the 669
deaths returned from the Camberwell sub-district, 108 took
place in twolunatic asylums, and 138 in the workhouse.
The distribution of deaths from zymotic diseases was as
follows:—Hooping cough, 2 in Dulwich, 14 in Camberwell,
18 in Peckham, and 30 in St. George's; measles, 5 in
Camberwell, 10 in Peckham, and 5 in St. George's; diphtheria,
2 in Camberwell, 4 in Peckham, and 2 in St.
George's ; scarlet fever, 24 in Camberwell, 17 in Peckham,
and 34 in St. George's; fever, 1 in Dulwich, 7 in
Camberwell, 13 in Peckham, and 20 in St George's;
small-pox, 1 in Dulwich, 4 in Camberwell, 1 in
Peckham, and 3 in St. George's; diarrhoea and cholera,
I in Dulwich, 16 in Camberwell, 29 in Peckham, and 27
in St. George's.
In most former reports I have endeavoured to give an
estimate of the population of the parish and of its registration
districts, and an estimate of their death-rates; but have
generally had to explain how uncertain for a parish like
Camberwell all such estimates are. And although such estimates
are increasingly fallacious as we recede year by year
from the time at which the census was taken, and although
consequently such calculations for the present year are
doubtless little trustworthy, I venture to give them.
If Camberwell and its four sub-districts have all increased
year by year since 1861, according to their