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deaths, to Camberwell 1,646, to Peckham 1,424, and to St.
George's 1,025, and consequently to the whole Parish 4,145.
But Camberwell proper contains the workhouse and infirmary,
in which 380 deaths occurred, and two lunatic
asylums, in which 92 deaths occurred; and Peckham contains
an off-shoot of the workhouse, in which 68 deaths
occurred. Now these deaths, though happening within
these districts, no more properly belong to them than they
do to the other districts of the Parish, and if included in the
mortality of these districts would unduly and unfairly swell
their death-rates. I have, therefore, as I have always
hitherto done, distributed them among the several subdistricts
in proportion to the deaths (apart from these) due
to each. The steps of this calculation are shewn in the
2nd, 3rd, and 4th columns of the Table, and the final result
in the last column. It may be added that, even so, there is
a little unfairness to the Parish, inasmuch as many of the
deaths in the lunatic asylums are of persons who do not
properly belong to the Parish; and a little undue partiality
to the sub-district of Camberwell and in a less degree to
that of Peckham, inasmuch as in the former the populations
in the workhouse, infirmary, lunatic asylums, and St.
Saviour's infirmary, and in the latter the population in the
Gordon Road Workhouse, are included in the populations
as given in the census returns. I have, of course, excluded
from consideration the deaths occurring in St. Saviour's
infirmary, which amounted to 574.