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estimates of the amount of population be adopted; and it is important
to note that even the higher of these numbers indicates
a smaller death rate, than is assigned by the Registrar General
to any one of the five large sections into which he divides the
Metropolis; and that Camberwell therefore maintains that
relative healthiness, which I claimed for it in my last
Report.
The deaths (Table 1) were divided as nearly equally as
possible between males and females, 629 having occurred among
the former, 630 among the latter. They were distributed
according to age as follows:—430 deaths occurred in children
under 5 years of age; 46 in children between 5 and 10; and
20 in children between 10 and 15; 18 persons died from 15 to
20; 85 from 20 to 30; 101 from 30 to 40; 105 from 40 to
50; 112 from 50 to 60; 143 from 60 to 70; and 199 from 70
upwards, of whom oue had attained the advanced age of 100.
The proportions here indicated, approximate closely to those
revealed in the returns of the previous year; deaths are still
most numerous at the extremes of life—those of children under
5 forming more than one-third of the gross mortality, and those
of old persons upwards of 70 nearly one-sixth.
107 deaths are placed under the head of "violence, privation,
poison, and premature birth;" 24 under that of
"fever;" 18 under that of "dysentery and acute diarrhoea
(not of infants)"; 44 under that of "scarlet fever and
cynanche maligna 4 under that of ''small pox"; 16 under
that of "erysipelas, pyœmia, and puerperal fever;" 120 under
that of "diarrhœa, bronchitis, and pneumonia of infants under
3 years of age;" 52 under that of "measles, hooping cough,