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still more remarkable diminution as regards Diarrhoea
and Small-pox, which latter had been prevailing as
an epidemic for the previous two years.
Of the five groups of districts into which London
is divided for registration purposes, the mortuary rates
for 1879 were as follows:—Western, 21.1 ; Northern,
22.0; Central, 26; Eastern, 25.7; and Southern,
23.3. The death-rate of the Southern districts in
1878 was 24.2.
I will now proceed to the sanitary statistics of
our own Parish.
The births registered in 1879 amounted to 6386,
a number larger by 505 than that registered in the
previous year. Of these 1610 were registered in the
first quarter, 1498 in the second, 1564 in the third,
and 1714 in the fourth. In Dulwich the births were
82, or three more than in 1878 ; in Camberwell 1733,
or 174 more than in 1878 ; in Peckham 2617, or 150
more than in 1878; and in St. George's 1954, or 178
more than in the previous year.
The deaths registered in 1879 were 3511, or 163
more than in 1878. Of these 1004 were due to the first