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There is no doubt, however, that the mortality
was generally lower than the above figures represent
it to have been. For since the Registrar General's
Summary was prepared the Census has been taken,
and it has been shown that the population of London
must have been much larger in the middle of 1880
than the estimate of it 011 which the death-rate was
based, and hence that the death-rate must really have
been lower than 22.2. It has been shown also that the
districts south of the Thames especially have increased
at a rate which has outrun all former experience; and
as regards these, at any rate, the computed death-rate
of 22.8 per 1000 must be in excess of the actual
death-rate. It may be safely assumed therefore,
that the year 1880 was, judged by its death-rate, a
year of quite exceptional healthiness.
In the 52 weeks ending Saturday, January 1st,
1881, 6617 births and 3532 deaths were registered
in the Parish of Camberwell (see Table I.), the births
being 261, the deaths 21, in excess of those registered
in the 53 weeks constituting the registration year 1879.
Of the above totals, 82 births and 50 deaths were
returned from Dulwich, 1999 births and 1167 deaths
were returned from Camberwell, 2670 births and 1348
deaths were returned from Peckham, and 1896 births