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Of the 2,362 deaths, 621 occurred in the first year of life,
and 080 between one and 5. The deaths were also numerous
towards the other limit of life: 225 persons died between 60
and 70, 212 between 70 and 80, 101 between 80 and 90,
and 13 over 90, of whom one is said to have attained the age
of 100. Hence over 1000 of the total number of deaths
took place below the age of 5, and over 500 above the age
of 60.
Among the chief causes of death may be enumerated,
"accidental, or other violence," which caused 40 deaths;
"premature birth, or defective vitality continuing from
birth," which accounted for 184; "pneumonia, bronchitis,
and other inflammatory affections of the lungs," which caused
361 deaths; "diarrhaæa, dysentery, and English cholera,"
which caused 160 deaths; “hydrocephalus and convulsions
of infancy," which caused 162 deaths; and "phthisis, and
other forms of tubercular diseases," which caused 32o deaths;
"child-birth," which was fatal in 20 cases, and "inherited
syphilis," which was fatal in 10; and the various forms of
infectious fever. Of these latter, small-pox destroyed 23
persons, measles 24, hooping-cough 49, fever 57, diphtheria
10, and scarlet fever 192.
Small-pox produced 14 more deaths in 1870 than it did
in 1869. The deaths were distributed, as to area, one in Dulwich,
2 in Camberwell, 18 in Peckham, and 2 in St. George's;
as to time, 4 in the first quarter of the year, 4 in the second,
8 in the third, and 7 in the fourth. It is obvious, therefore,
that the disease during the whole year hung more about
Peckham than other parts of the parish, but that it at no
time prevailed epidemically, and that it showed no tendency