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respects the same conditions as London itself. Some diminished
in severity, others increased in severity. Deaths from smallpox
fell from 14 in 1863 to 10 in 1864, deaths from scarlet
fever from 124 to 83, deaths from diphtheria from 29 to 16,
and deaths from measles from 32 to 29. But deaths from
hooping cough increased from 57 to 61, and deaths from fever
from 41 to 51. Generally throughout the parish zymotic
diseases prevailed less extensively and were less fatal in
1864 than in 1863. The deaths from the several forms
of disease just enumerated were distributed according to districts
as follows:—of small pox, 2 fatal cases occurred in Camberwell,
3 in Peckham and 5 in St. George's ; of scarlet fever,
1 fatal case occurred in Dulwich, 21 fatal cases in Camberwell,
24 in Peckham and 37 in St. George's; of diphtheria, 2 fatal
cases occurred in Dulwich, 4 in Camberwell, 6 in Peckham and
4 in St. George's ; of measles, 7 fatal cases occurred in Camberwell,
9 in Peckham and 13 in St. George's; of hooping cough,
15 fatal cases occurred in Camberwell, 21 in Peckham and 25
in St. George's ; and of lever, 25 fatal cases occurred in Camberwell,
18 in Peckham and 8 in St. George's.
The only one of these diseases in reference to which I need
make any special observations is that to which the term "lver"
is applied. It is well known that, during the years 1862, 1863
and 1864, typhus fever, which had for several years previously
been absent from London, has prevailed here in an epidemic
form. In 1862, 3635 deaths were in the Registrar
General's returns ascribed to fever; in 1863, 2892 deaths were
ascribcd to the same disease; and in 1834, 36S9. The epidemic
therefore, which was severe in 1862, diminished in severity in
1863, and increased in severity in 1864, during which year the
deaths from it were more numerous than they had been even in
1862. In Camberwell the fever mortality was (taking still the