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St Giles (Camberwell) 1879
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]
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MEDICAL OFFICER'S
A N NUUA L REPORT,
by
J. S. BRISTOWE, M.D., Lond,
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; Senior Physician to and Lecturer on
Medicine at St. Thomas's Hospital; Examiner in Medicine to the Royal
College of Surgeons ; and President of the Society of Medical Officers of
Health.
Gentlemen,
According to the Registrar-General's Annual
Report for 1879, the population of London estimated
for the middle of that year was 3,620,868, the births
were 134,096, and the deaths 85,540. The birth-rate
was 36.5 per each 1000 of the population, the deathrate
was 23.3 ; the birth-rate in the previous year
having been 36.1, the death-rate 23.5. There is consequently
a decided, though not a large, improvement