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The table shews a general falling-off in the mortality
of these diseases as compared with the previous year.
Measles alone shewed an increase, but nevertheless it was
considerably less fatal in the southern districts than it was
in 1884. The chief diminution was in Hooping-cough,
Scarlet-fever, and Fever. There Avere 737 fewer cases of
Scarlet-fever in 1885 than in 1884. It is interesting to
note that all the zymotic diseases, excepting Small-pox,
shewed a large decrease in the southern districts. Smallpox,
however, rose from 204 to 404.
Table IV. gives the actual populations of the Parish of
Camberwell and of its four sub-districts as they were
enumerated at the Census of 1881, and the populations
calculated for the year 1885, 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.
The difference is unimportant, and depends on the fact
(which renders absolute agreement impossible) that the
increase in each district, as also that for the entire parish,
have been calculated on independent data. I must also