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particularly Scarlet Fever were very fatal in South
London; and they were very fatal in our own parish
but mainly in the sub-districts of Peckham and St.
George's. Thus there were 125 deaths from Hooping
Cough against 76 in the previous year, and 177 from
Scarlet Fever against 24; and of these, 52 from
ing Cough and 81 from Scarlet Fever occurred in
Peckham, and 43 from Hooping Cough and 75 from
Scarlet Fever in St. George's. There can be no
doubt that the mortality from these affections really did
materially influence the death rates of Peckham and
St. George's, and in a less degree that of the whole
Parish. In order, however, more distinctly to shew
the influence of the zymotic diseases Hooping Cough,
Measles, Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, Fever and Small
Pox, upon the death rate, I may point out that the
deaths from these affections were more numerous in
1875 than they were in 1874, in Peckham, by 93,
and in St. George's, by 95; and that if the mortality
of these districts be diminished by these respective
numbers the death rate of Peckham sinks from 2.5.
to 2.3 and that of St. George's from 2.3 to 2.1.
It must of course be admitted that this is not
the complete solution of the problem offered by the
relatively low mortality of Dulwich and the relatively
high mortality of Peckham and St. George's.