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But a considerable number of deaths due to the parish took
place in hospitals and other institutions placed outside the
parish. These, with some approach to accuracy, are given
in Table X. For the purposes of the death-rate the corresponding
items in Tables IX. and X. have been added
together, and the combined numbers (representing the total
mortality of the parish and of its sub-districts) are set forth
in the first column of Table VII. To Dulwich there are there
attributed 77 deaths, to Camberwell 1,817, to Peckham
1,583, to St.George's 1,329, and consequently to the whole
parish 4,806. But Camberwell proper contains the workhouse
and infirmary, in which 397 deaths occurred, and two
lunatic asylums, in which 71 deaths occurred; and Peckham
contains two off-shoots of the workhouse, in which 81 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 informary, and in the latter the populations of the
Gordon Road and Willowbrook Road infirmaries, are included