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III

The total number of deaths properly accredited to the
Borough for the year amounted to 4,272. The deaths of those
parishioners of St. Saviour's Union which occurred in the
Infirmary of that parish at East Dulwich, and those of persons
who, although they died in the Workhouse or Lunatic Asylums
within this Borough, had been brought from districts outside
its limits, of course have been excluded, but the deaths
of those who were removed from within Camberwell to
hospitals or other public institutions without the Borough are
included.
The deaths of parishioners occurring in hospitals, etc.,
outside the Borough have been re-distributed according to the
sub-districts whence they were removed wherever we have
been able to get the requisite information, and a similar plan
has been followed out with regard to those that took place in
the Infirmary, Workhouses and Lunatic Asylums.
But there are some instances where this information as
to previous address is lacking, and when this has been so the
deaths have been considered separately and have been re-distributed
among the sub-districts in the due proportion to their
recorded deaths.
The re-distribution of these Infirmary deaths is especially
necessary so far as regards Camberwell sub-district, in which
the Infirmaries are chiefly situated, and where the registered
deaths are greatly in excess of the rest of the Borough, and
which, if uncorrected, would create an altogether false impression
of the healthiness of this district.