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Zymotic diseases it will be seen have thus been on the whole
more than usually fatal. Deaths from small-pox especially show
a considerable increase. There has also, it should be remarked,
been a general increase of small-pox throughout London during
the last year. It is worth while to point out that, notwithstanding
the presence of a cholera-epidemic in 1860, the total
mortality for the year from cholera and diarrhoea was only
greater by two than the whole mortality from the same diseases
in the previous year Their collective mortality however was,
roughly speaking, about twice the average. A reference to
table I. will shew that, excepting Duiwich, in which were 3
deaths from hooping-cough and 2 from fever, zymotic diseases
were distributed pretty uniformly throughout the Parish. In
proportion to population however hooping-cough was least fatal
in St. George's, diphtheria in Peckham, and small-pox was
much most fatal in Camberwell.
In almost all years (see table II) the mortality is greatest in
the first and last quarters of the year, and least in the third
quarter. The same rule prevailed last year, notwithstanding
that it was during the third quarter that cholera and diarrhoea
almost exclusively prevailed. 570 deaths were registered in the
first three months of the year, 492 in the second, 444 in the
third, and 544 in the fourth.
The sanitary works (table IV) executed during the year terminating
March 31st, 18G7, have been unprecedentedly numerous
The chief cause of this lies in the fact that during a considerable
portion of this period two additional inspectors have been
engaged in the sanitary duties of the Parish. In anticipation
of cholera Mr. Cooper was appointed, and commenced to act as
inspector, at the latter part of last June; and on the 13th of
August another inspector, Mr. Waters, was appointed by the