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St Giles (Camberwell) 1867
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]
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MEDICAL OFFICER'S
ANNUAL REPORT,
by
J. S. BRISTOWE, M.D., Lorid., Fellow of the Royal College
of Physicians, Physician to St. Thomas s Hospital.
Gentlemen,
During- the fifty-two weeks ending December
28th, 1867, 3417 births and 2056 deaths were registered
in the Parish of Camberwell. The number of births was
greater by 96, and the number of deaths greater by
only 6, than the respective numbers of births and deaths
registered in fifty-two weeks of the year 1866. I have
shown on former occasions that, in the Parish of Camberwell,
both births and deaths have invariably increased
year by year for several years past, and that this