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Table X shows the monthly and annual
mortality from small pox for the years 187G, 1877,
1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, and the first three months
of 1882, for the Parish of Camberwell; for the
Sub-districts of Camberwell, St. George's, and
Peckham; and also for No. 4 Ward, which forms
only a part of Peckham. Only one death from
small pox occurred in Dulwich.
The deaths include, not only those actually
occurring in the Parish, but those also due to the
Parish, but occurring in the Asylum Hospitals.
The latter (with one or two exceptions) have all
been referred to the districts whence the patients
were removed, during life to Hospital.
Table XI shows the rate of small pox mortality
per 100,000 living persons for the same periods,
and for the same areæ, as those referred to in
Table X. For the purposes of this Table, I have
calculated the populations of the Parish and of
its several Sub-divisions for each of the years
given in the Table. The following is the method
I have adopted:—
I have taken the populations of Camberwell