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St Giles (Camberwell) 1873
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]
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35
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 Pathology at St. Thomas's Hospital; Examiner in Medicine at the
University of London.
Gentlemen,
During the fifty-two weeks ending December
27th, 1873, 4,480 births were registered in the parish,
of which 85 occurred in Dulwich, 1,175 in Camberwell,
1,785 in Peckham, and 1,435 in St. George's; and 2,408
deaths were registered in the parish, of which 48
occurred in Dulwich, 799 in Camberwell, 911 in
Peckham, and 650 in St. George's. As regards the
deaths, however, it is important to remark that of the
799 which occurred in the Camberwell sub-district,
148 took place in the Workhouse, and 104 in two