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sub-districts (which are considerably less than those assigned
by the Registrar General to London and to each one
of its groups of districts) would seem to show (compared
at least with other parts of London) remarkable healthiness.
I am not about to maintain that Camberwell has during;
the past year been specially unhealthy; but I fear, notwithstanding
the death-rate, that it will have to be
admitted that Camberwell and all its districts, more or less,
have shared in the unhealthiness which has prevailed
throughout the country.
I have pointed out that scarlet fever, hooping cough,
and diarrhæa have been the prevalent diseases of the year,
and have caused an unusually heavy mortality. In Camberwell
there were 1G4 deaths from scarlet fever (93 more
than in 18G8), 134 deaths from hooping cough (76 more
than in 1868), and 133 deaths from diarrhæa and cholera
(there were 146 in the previous year, but in the year before
that there were only 73, and in the cholera year, 186G, no
more than 120). I believe that the unduly high mortality
of St. George's, to which I have adverted, was owing to
the relatively higher mortality from hooping cough and
scarlet fever in that sub-district; for of the deaths from
hooping cough 2 occurred in Dulwich, 38 in Camberwell,
28 in Peckham, and GG in St. George's, and of the deaths
from scarlet fever, one occurred in Dulwich, 37 in Camberwell,
47 in Peckham, and 79 in St. George's.
Other zymotic diseases have caused about their average
mortality, or have perhaps been somewhat less fatal than
usual. Measles caused 43 deaths, against 67 the year
before ; diphtheria 9 against 17 ; fever 46 against 45 ; and