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relatively large increase of deaths as compared with
that of births) that they have materially increased.
The death rate per cent. for Camberwell parish in
1874 was 1.94, in 1875 2.24; for Dulwich the rates
for the respective years were .9, and 1.01; for Camberwell
sub-district 1.86 and 1.99; for Peckham 2.07
and 2.5; and for St. George's 1.99 and 2.32. The increase
for Dulwich is obviously trivial; and that for
the sub-district of Camberwell is inconsiderable: but
in Peckham and St. George's the advance is large and
materially affects the general death-rate of the parish.
It may be observed that the Registrar-General
in his Annual Summary for 1875. gives the death
rate of London for that year at 2.37 per cent. which
is higher than the death rate for 1874 by .12; that
he gives the death rate of the several groups of districts
into which London is for registration purposes
divided, as follows: 2.21 for the Western districts, 2.23
for the Northern districts, 2.40 for the South districts,
2.55 for the East districts, and 2.60 for the Central
districts, and shews that these also are all higher than
the corresponding rates of the previous year ; and
that he attributes this general rise of the mortuary
rate throughout the metropolis in 1875, mainly to the
excessive mortality due to the prevalence of Hooping
Cough and Scarlct Fever. These affections, but more