Last week 2470 births and 1303 deaths were registered in London. Allowing for increase of population, the births were 33, and the deaths 108, below the average numbers in the corresponding week of the last ten years. Attention is drawn by the Registrar-General to the fact that last week was the first since November, 1879, in which no fatal case of smallpox was registered in London; the average weekly number of deaths from this disease in the corresponding week of the last ten years was 22.

Source: The Illustrated London News, July 8, 1882, p.42