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MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Received July 6th, 1859.
Gentlemen,
The Annual lleport which I have now the honour
of placing before you, is naturally divided, like its predecessors,
into two parts; 1st, that which has reference to the actual state
of health of Caraberwell during the past year; 2nd, that which
relates to the means that have been adopted for the improvement
of its sanitary condition. These two topics I propose to discuss
separately, and in the order indicated.
First.—In the 52 weeks which terminated on the 1st January,
1859, 1440 deaths were registered in this parish. Of this
number 688 occurred in males and 752 in females; 21 took
place in Dulwich, 419 in St. George's, 470 in Peckham, and
530 in Camberwell. But the Camberwell sub-district contains
the workhouse and two lunatic asylums, in the former of which
74 inmates died, in the latter, 121. And if these deaths,
amounting collectively to 195, be subtracted from the 530
assigned above to Camberwell proper, we obtain the number
335, which more correctly expresses the comparative mortality
of this sub-district.
537 deaths, or considerably more than one-third of the entire
number, occurred in infants under 5 years, and 67 in children