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St Giles (Camberwell) 1872
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]
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MBDICAL OFFICER'S
ANNUAL REPORT,
by
J. S. BRISTOWE, M.D., Lond.,
Follow of the Royal College of Physicians; Physician to, and Lecturer on
General Pathology at, St. Thomas's Hospital; Examiner in Medicine at
the University of London.
Gentlemen,
In the fifty-two weeks ending Saturday, Dee.
28th, 1872, 4254 births and 2322 deaths were
registered in the parish. The births were more
numerous by 340, the deaths less numerous by 27,
than those registered in the previous year. Hence,
even if we assume the population to have remained
stationary in point of numbers, the birth-rate must
have increased, and the death-rate must have sunk
below the unusually low death-rate which I shewed
in my last Report to have characterized the year 1871.