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of the parish. Appended to this report will be
found a list (Table III.) of the localities in which
small-pox deaths were most abundant. Of these
the most remarkable were—1st, the group of
streets (group 1) bounded on the east by the Camberwell
high road and on the south by the Wyndham
road, where the epidemic showed its chief violence
in the last quarter of the year, and destroyed 30
persons; 2nd, the group of streets (group 7) lying
north and south of the portion of the Commercialroad
situated to the west of the Peckham branch
of the Grand Surrey Canal, where there were 24
deaths; and 3rd, the district (group 2) lying between
the Camberwell-road, Church-street, and Southampton-street.
In concluding my report upon the population and
health of the parish, for the year 1871, let me very
briefly recapitulate a few of the more important points
which have been established by it.
The health of the parish has been on the whole good,
and the mortuary rate low, notwithstanding the presence
of a severe epidemic of small-pox. The deathrate
of Dulwich has been marvellously low, and thus
it has enjoyed, statistically speaking, a remarkable