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V.
While recognising the fact that the death rate of any
district is affected by many varying influences, and hence must
not always be taken as an absolute standard of the healthiness
or otherwise of any given district, we are justified in considering
to some extent its gradual diminution as an important
sign of the improvement in the conditions under which its
inhabitants exist.
It appears from the above that there has been a gradual
diminution since 1899, while compared with the other South
London Boroughs, Camberwell by no means occupies an
unfavourable position.

3,681 houses were disinfected by your officers after
cases of infectious diseases, together with the various
articles set out in the following table. It speaks well for the
care of your Disinfectors when I report that the amount of
claims we have paid for compensation in respect of damage
done amounts to less than a five pound note.

Influenza was rather more fatal in the period under
review than in the previous year, there being nine more deaths.
The extra mortality was chiefly confined to Camberwell.