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St Giles (Camberwell) 1888
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]
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I now pass on to the sanitary statistics of the Parish
of Camberwell. Table IV. gives the populations of Camberwell
and of its sub-districts as they were determined at the
Census of 1881, and the populations estimated for the
middle of the year 1888, on the assumption that the rates
of increase of each sub-district and of the parish, which prevailed
betwen 1871 and 1881, have been maintained since.
Table III.—Mortality of chief Zymotic Diseases in Loxdon
for 10 Years.
| Hooping Cough. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Fever, | Small Pox. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1879 | 3,000 | 2,488 | 2,706 | 592 | 1,099 | 458 | |
| 1880 | 3,438 | 1,501 | 3,073 | 561 | 886 | 475 | |
| 1881 | 1,961 | 2,533 | 2,108 | 654 | 1,196 | 2,371 | |
| 1882 | 4,647 | 2,329 | 2,004 | 863 | 1,117 | 431 | |
| 1883 | 1,582 | 2,420 | 1,989 | 951 | 1,081 | 134 | |
| 1884 | 3,188 | 2,285 | 1,444 | 973 | 1,045 | 913 | |
| 1885 | 2,479 | 2,928 | 707 | 896 | 695 | 899 | |
| 1886 | 2,834 | 2,078 | 688 | 846 | 701 | 24 | |
| 1887 | 2,928 | 2,894 | 1,447 | 961 | 672 | 9 | |
| 1888 | 2,9S7 | 2,401 | 1,209 | 1,301 | 720 | 9 | |
| 1888 | West D. | 492 | 420 | 142 | 318 | 115 | 1 |
| North D. | 593 | 626 | 373 | 228 | 201 | 2 | |
| Central D, | 192 | 161 | 27 | 135 | 41 | 0 | |
| East D. | 666 | 656 | 218 | 201 | 135 | 1 | |
| South D. | 1,044 | 538 | 425 | 419 | 228 | 2 | |
| Metropolitan Asylum Hospitals outside London. | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
It will be found that the total for the parish in the last
line does not correspond exactly with the totals obtained by
adding up the estimates for the several sub-districts. The
difference, which is unimportant, depends on the fact (which
renders absolute agreement impossible) that the increase for
each sub-district, and also that for the entire parish, have
been calculated on independent data. It is almost needless
to say, that the assumed rates of increase are never really
maintained; that the estimated annual growth of the parish
is much more likely to prove fairly uniform than that of
any of its constituent parts; and that hence, as we recede
further and further from the last Census, the estimates of
the parochial population, and especially the estimates of the
populations of the several sub-districts, probably differ more
and more widely from the populations actually existing. I
have ventured, therefore, to make another estimate of the