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mortality due to Measles, Scarlet-fever, and the different
forms of the continued fevers; that there was a slight increase
in the deaths due to Diphtheria; and that a notable
rise was presented in the mortality due to Hooping-cough
and to Small-pox. The deaths from Small-pox occurred
mainly in the Northern Districts; and those from Measles
mainly in the South. The generally more numerous
deaths due to the Zymotic diseases in South London are
to be explained, not by the unhealthiness of this area, but
by the fact that the South London group of Districts
comprises a much larger population than any one of the
others.
Table IV gives the actual populations of the Parish of
Camberwell and of its four sub-districts as they were
enumerated at the last census; and the populations calculated
for the year 1884, on the assumption that the rates of
increase of each district and of the parish, that prevailed
between 1871 and 1881, have been maintained since.

It will be found that the total for the parish, in the
last line, does not correspond exactly to the totals obtained
by adding up the estimates for the several sub-districts.
I he difference is unimportant, and depends on the fact
(which renders absolute agreement impossible) that the
increase in each district as also that in the entire parish,
have been calculated on independent data. I may also
repeat the caution, which I have often before expressed,