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SANITARY MATTERS.
In the year 1864 the births exceeded the deaths by more
than one-third. There were 6,439 births registered: of
which 1,720 were in the first quarter; 1,554 in the second
quarter; 1,553 in the third quarter; and 1,612 in the last
quarter of the year.
The number of deaths registered during the year were
4,245 : viz., in the first quarter, 1,336 ; in the second quarter,
961; in the third quarter, 912 ; and in the last quarter, 1036.
Table II. shows the births and deaths during each quarter
of the year, in each of the eight Ecclesiastical Divisions of
the Parish. In the Waterloo Road, 1st part district, there
were 607 births and 343 deaths during the year; in the
Waterloo Road, 2nd part, 893 births and 484 deaths; in the
Lambeth Church, 1st part, 764 births and 556 deaths; in
the Lambeth Church, 2nd part, 1,265 births and 1,051 deaths,
— 334 of which occurred in the Workhouse; in the Kennington,
first part district, 1,274 births and 767 deaths; in the
Kennington, 2nd part, 627 births and 478 deaths; in the
Brixton district, 697 births and 401 deaths; and in the Norwood,
312 births and 162 deaths—17 of which occurred in
the Children's Workhouse.
lable ill exhibits the different periods of life in which the
deaths took place. lhus, 1,934 deaths were under the age