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iii.

Table C shows the birth rate per 1,000. There is a
falling off. in the Borough and in the Camberwell sub-districts,
St. George's and Peckham showing but little change. The
Dulwich figures are higher than for the two previous years.

The total number of deaths registered in the Borough
was 4,004, but this includes 649 deaths that occurred in St.
Saviour's, together with 92 that occurred of non-parishioners
in the lunatic asylums, and takes no account of those 366
parishioners who had been removed to institutions outside the
Borough and had died there. It is therefore necessary to
subtract the former and add the latter. The net result as set out
in Table D indicates that 3,629 deaths represent the mortality
of inhabitants of the Borough.
The deaths are classified under the headings of the
various districts in the case of those parishioners who die in
the parish, as also are those who die in institutions to which
they have been removed from an address which is known to
us. It not infrequently happens that a person dies in an
institution either inside or outside the parish, and all the
information we can get as to his previous address is the fact
that he was removed from some part of Camberwell Borough.
Such deaths we have been obliged to treat as a class apart,