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constant double increase is manifestly the result of increasing
population. It is satisfactory to observe that the
births have, on the present occasion, increased in a much
larger proportion than the deaths, a circumstance which
indicates that Camberwell has shared in the general
healthiness which the Registrar-General's report shows to
have prevailed throughout London during the year 1867.
According to the Registrar-General's " Summary of
Weekly Returns of 1867," it appears that, judging
from the mortuary rate, " that year was the healthiest
that London had enjoyed since 1860." The death rate per
cent. was—for 1861, 2.318; for 1862, 2.356; for 1863,
2.447; for 1864. 2.653; for 1865, 2.456; for 1866, 2.648;
while for 1867, it was 2.298 only. Further, according to
the same authority, and by the same test, of all the five
groups of districts into which London is, for registration
purposes, divided, the southern group (which includes Camberwell)
was the healthiest part of London. The deathrate
in the central districts was 2.433 per cent., in the
eastern districts 2.423, in the northern districts 2.3 19, in
the western districts 2.202, and in the southern districts
2 198.
That the year has been unusually healthy for us in
Camberwell is further shown by certain facts which our
own mortuary tables disclose. Thus, though the total
mortality was larger in 1867 than in 1866, the deaths of
young children diminished; 550 children under one
year of age died in 1866, 511 only died in 1867;
335 children between one and four died in the former