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from these two diseases was greater by 10 than that returned
in the year 1859. It is clear, therefore, that notwithstanding
a slight increase in hooping cough and measles, there was on
the whole a decided decrease in the prevalence of zymotic
diseases.
The number of deaths occurring in the different seasons
of the year (see Table III,) varied considerably; in the first
quarter there were 436, in the second 347, in the third 233,
and in the fourth 312. It will be observed that the highest
mortality was in the autumnal season, at which time, when
cholera and other like epidemics prevail, the death-rate is
commonly rendered excessive.
2243 births (see Table VI,) were registered during the
twelve months, 1160 of boys and 1083 of girls; of these 25
occurred in Dulwich, 648 in Camberwell, 681 in St. George's
and 889 in Peckham; altogether 48 more children were born
during 1860 than during the previous year.
Since the time at which this report was due, a few of the
more important results of the late census have been made
known. It would hardly be in order now to comment at any
length on a subject which, however important it may be,
belongs essentially to the year 1861, and has an indirect
bearing only on the year to which my present report relates.
Still as the enumeration of a few of the main points indicative
of the progress of the parish will occupy but a line or two, and
as I shall be by them enabled to test the correctness of the
inferences which I have hitherto drawn with regard to the
death-rate of the parish, I will venture briefly to state them.
In the decennial period between the spring of 1851 and that
of the current year (see Table IV,) it appears that the population
of Camberwell has been augmented by 16,821 persons,
and that the number of inhabitants which at the earlier date