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general healthiness of the Metropolis. In the Western
group the mortality was 21.0 per 1,000, in the
Northern "group 21.4, in the Central group 24.0, in
the Eastern group 24.0, and in the Southern group
22T.
Judged of by its mortuary rate, Camberwell too
was unusually healthy, for its death-rate was only
19.6 per 1,000.
During the fifty-two weeks ending Saturday,
December 30th, 5,276 births and 2,754 deaths were
registered in the Parish; of which (see Table II.) 1,328
births and 741 deaths occurred in the first quarter,
1,325 births and 595 deaths in the second quarter,
1,270 births and 666 deaths in the third quarter, and
1,353 births and 752 deaths in the last quarter; and
of which (see Table I.) 98 births and 47 deaths were
returned from Dulwich, 1,366 births and 934 deaths
from Camberwell, 2,175 births and 995 deaths from
Peckham, and 1,637 births and 778 deaths from
St. George's.
The births in 1876 were more numerous than
those in 1875 by 378, and the deaths less numerous
by 324; and similar differences were observed in every
one of the sub-districts.