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ANNUAL REPORT
BY
J. S. Bristowe, M.D., Land., Fellow of the Royal College of
Physicians, Physician to St. Thomas's Hospital
Gentlemen,
The year 1862 was on the whole an average year. Its
chief feature, in a sanitary sense, was the prevalence during it
bf typhus fever, an infectious disease which had scarcely been
met with in the Metropolis during the previous five or six years.
Deaths from typhus swelled considerably the Metropolitan
Mortuary Tables, and added something to the size of those of
Camberwell. The mortality of London and that of Camberwell
were both of them larger then they had been since the cholera
year 1854. This result was due in part to the cause just
assigned, in part however to other circumstances, which it will
be my object in the present report to explain and estimate.
During the last year, 1553 deaths were registered in the
parish. Of this number 715 were of males, 833 of females; 205
occurred in Dulwich, 389 in St. George's, 552 in Camberwell,