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ANNUAL REPORT
BY
J. S. Bristowe, Jun. M.D., Lond, Fellow of the Royal College
of Physicians, Physician to St. Thomas's Hospital.
Gentlemen,
I beg to lay before you my Annual Report on the
sanitary condition of the parish of Camberwell. It is short,
because little of unusual interest has occurred to call for
special comment; but it will, I hope, prove satisfactory, for
it bears testimony to the general good health which the parish
has enjoyed, and to the sanitary benefits which the district
generally, but the poorer localities especially, have derived
from the constant supervision of your health-officers.
The actual number of deaths recorded during the year 1860
is 1328, a number smaller than those registered in each of the
years 1858 and 59, but larger than those registered in each of
the years 1856 and 57. If, however, we allow for the increase
of population which has gradually taken place, on the
scale at which I have calculated it for former years, the
number of inhabitants in the parish about the middle of 1860
was greater than the number present in the middle of 1856 by
6000 souls; and if we base our estimate of the mortuary per
centage on these data, we find that the death-rate during the