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St Giles (Camberwell) 1870

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

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MEDICAL OFFICER'S
ANNUAL REPORT
BY
J. S. BRISTOWE, M.D., Lond.,
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; Physician to, and Lecturer on General
Pathalogy at, St. Thomas's Hospital; Examiner in Medicine at the University of
London, and in Anatomy and Physiology at the Royal College of Physicians.
Gentlemen,
In the 52 weeks ending Saturday, December 31st,.
1870, there were registered in London 113,499 births, and
77,278 deaths; which numbers (on the supposition that
there were living in London in the middle of that year
3,214,707 persons) give respectively a birth-rate of 3.531
per cent., and a death-rate of 2.412 per cent. The births
were more numerous, the deaths less numerous than in the
previous year, and the death-rate consequently was smaller.

Table: The following is a statement of the mortality of the more important zymotic diseases in the years 1869 and 1870:—

The following is a statement of the mortality of the more important zymotic diseases in the years 1869 and 1870:—

Small-pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Hooping Cough.Fever.Diarrhæa & Cholera.
1869....27314255803343375524143617
1870....95814435998313193520534011