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among the other three quarters. It will be recollected
that the small-pox mortality in 1871 was far
greater in St. George's than in any other of our
sub-districts. In the present year again more than
half of the entire mortality from this disease occurred
in St. George's. There were 25 deaths in this
sub-district, and only 10 in Peckham and 6 in
Camberwell.
There can be no doubt that, taken altogether,
the year 1872, judged both by the number of deaths
which occurred during it in relation to the population,
and by the relative mortality of the diseases to
which the deaths were due, was an altogether
exceptionally healthy year. It was healthy for
London, healthy for our own parish, and healthy for
each of the sub-districts of our parish. And indeed,
as I have already pointed out, the death-rate of the
parish is the lowest of which we have any record,
The year, however, was not uniformly healthy.
The mortality in its first quarter amounted to 733,
was exceptionally heavy, and further comprised
the great bulk of all the deaths from zymotic
diseases. In the second quarter the deaths were only
474; in the third, 579; and in the fourth, 536. In