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It will be noted that the death-rate is .22 per thousand
lower than the corrected death-rate for 1895; according to the
Registrar-General's calculation the rate is lower than 18.66, the
difference is probably accounted for by our inclusion of deaths
of parishioners in outside asylums who perhaps had been nonresident
for some long period. The death-rate, calculated for
London as a whole, it will be remembered is 18.2. Taking the
individual sub-districts and comparing with the corrected
record of 1895, we see there is a decrease in Camberwell and
St. George's, white Peckham shows an increase of .32 per
thousand.
In considering the death-rate for the Parish for the sake
of uniformity with the report of the Begistrar-General, I have
taken the number of deaths for the fifty-three weeks ending
January 2nd, 1897, and have used these figures for the purpose
of calculation. If, instead of doing this, the number of deaths
occurring during the fifty-two weeks had been worked upon the
death-rate would have amounted to 18.18, as compared with
18.66. On the other hand, the population had not increased
for the period 1891-6 in the same ratio as it had in the previous
decennial period, consequently the death-rate for 1895 was
calculated on the assumption that the population was larger
than it really was, so that actually the death-rate for last year
was a shade higher than calculated by us.
Tables VII. and VIII. give the deaths occurring in the
Parish, and Table IX. those of inhabitants of Camberwell who
have died in institutions outside the Parish. Both these are
arranged according to age, season and disease. It will be
noticed that among those that occurred in outside institutions I
have put a certain number down as unclassified; these are
nearly all from lunatic asylums, and the only information given
on the certificate is that the deaths were of persons who
belonged to Camberwell Parish. They are almost entirely
cases of chronic brain disease.
On examining these three tables, and comparing them
with the corresponding numbers in 1895, it will be seen
that accidental or other violence caused 115 deaths, as
compared with 149. The deaths ascribed to developmental
diseases (premature birth, etc.) and to convulsions of
infancy numbered 335 and 148, compared with 449 and