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St Giles (Camberwell) 1889
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]
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101
1889-90.
MEDICAL OFFICER'S
ANNUAL REPORT.
Gentlemen,
As in my last Annual Report, I begin with a quotation
from the Annual Summary of the Registrar General for
1889. He says:—
"The year 1889 was again a year of excessively low
rates, the birth-rate and the death-rate being each the lowest
as yet recorded, and the marriage-rate the lowest with one
exception, namely, the immediately preceding year 1888.
"The marriages registered in London numbered 35,484,
giving a proportion of 16.3 persons married to 1,000 of the
population. This was a slight recovery from the rate in the