[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell, St. Giles].

  • St. Giles Camberwell (Parish : Surrey, England)
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[1867]
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    24 Zymotic diseases it will be seen have thus been on the whole mote than usually fatal. Deaths from small-pox especially show a considerable increase. There has also, it should be remarked, been a general increase of small-pox throughout London during the last year. It is worth while to point out that, notwith standing the presence of a cholera-epidemic in 1866, the total mortality for the year from cholera and diarrhoea was only greater by two than the whole mortality from the same diseases in the previous year Their collective mortality however was, roughly speaking, about twice the average. A reference to table I. will shew that, excepting Dulwich, in which were 3 deaths from hooping-cough and 2 from fever, zymotic diseases were distributed pretty uniformly throughout the Parish. In proportion to population however hooping-cough was least fatal in St. George's, diphtheria in Peckham, and small-pox was much most fatal in Camberwell. In almost all years (see table II) the mortality is greatest in the first and last quarters of the year, and least in the third quarter. The same rule prevailed last year, notwithstanding that it was during the third quarter that cholera and diarrhoea almost exclusively prevailed. 570 deaths were registered in the first three months of the year, 492 in the second, 444 in the third, and 544 in the fourth. The sanitary works (table IV) executed during the year termi nating March 31st, 1867, have been unprecedentedly numerous The chief cause of this lies in the fact that during a considerable portion of this period two additional inspectors have been engaged in the sanitary duties of the Parish. In anticipation of cholera Mr. Cooper was appointed, and commenced to act as inspector, at the latter part of last June; and on the 13 th of August another inspector, Mr. Waters, was appointed by the