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with the exception of North Peckham and Dulwich.
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The last is easy to understand, as there are a number of new
houses of a class adapted to young married people, which leads
to corresponding increase of resident women of a child-bearing age.
North Peckham's slight increase is not quite so easy of explanation,
as there have been forty-one more births recorded with the
returns for one week less than last year and with no extra amount
of housing accommodation provided; in fact, any change would be in
the way of demolition rather than the building of new houses.

With the decrease in numbers of births, the birth-rate has
proportionately diminished from 25·1 to 24·3. This is the lowest
that has been recorded in Camberwell for at least ten years past, but
as it depends for its correctness on the population, the figures must
be accepted with some reserve.
The total number of deaths that could be properly allocated to
the Borough was 3,778, being 176 more than last year. It will be
seen that the number registered is 4,098, but this includes the
deaths of inhabitants of Southwark who died in the Southwark
Infirmary and who were only sent there when fatal sickness had
already laid hold of them. It also includes those who were properly
never residents of Camberwell, and only come into our records
because they have died in one or other of the lunatic asylums
situated in the Borough. These it is of course necessary to exclude
from the deaths of inhabitants of Camberwell, for they should be
assigned to the respective localities whence they came to this
district.
In the same way the deaths of those inhabitants who have died
in institutions for the sick or elsewhere outside London must be included.
Among these are included those who have died in any one of
the long list of such institutions which is given in the tables, and also
includes a few who have died a natural death in private homes, as
well as a few persons who have committed suicide outside the
Borough boundary.
In most of the latter cases it has been possible to assign the
deaths to the respective divisions of the Borough from which the
person was admitted to the hospital or institution where death took
place; with a certain number of cases all the available information
has been that the deceased was of Camberwell. The only way to
deal with these has been to distribute them amongst the registration
districts in proportion to their known recorded deaths.