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which are devoted to the reception of diseases running a chronic
course. Deaths occur therein of persons who have been removed
from Camberwell, perhaps many years previously, but where no
record exists of the exact locality in the Borough from which they
were admitted. Dr. Bristowe instituted the plan of distributing
these deaths, which can be described as unattached, among the
various registration districts in proportion to the deaths recorded
among them, and about which there could be no possibility of error
on this score. The following table shows the method of this
redistribution:—

After all these alterations have been carried out we have altogether
3,722 deaths recorded during the year of persons whose
deaths can be properly ascribed to Camberwell, two less than those
which have been 1assigned to us in the proof report of the Registrar General.
This discrepancy is due to the difference of opinion as
to whether deaths of persons dying outside who had been in
Camberwell institutions, and who might conceivably have been
moved from an address in that Borough to an outside institution,
should be assigned to Camberwell or to any other district. Anyhow
the difference will not appreciably affect the figures.
Using this number of deaths, together with the calculation made
of the population in July, that is, three months after its actual
enumeration, we find that the death rate is 14.2, while if it be
corrected as is done by the Registrar-General, so as to make it
comparable with the other Boroughs of London, it becomes 14.8,
having increased from 12.5 in 1910. The death rate for the whole
county in these two years being 13.4 and 15.8 respectively.