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The birth rate shows a decline in all the sub-districts
with the exception of Dulwich, which shows an increase.
The subject was referred to in my report for last year, and I
have seen no reason to alter the opinion therein expressed,
namely, that it is the quality of the infants that are born that
is of far more consequence than the number.

As with the number so it is with the rate, the great fall,
however, in St. George's is due to the fact that owing to the
alteration of the boundaries of St. George's there is a consequent
diminution in the number of its births.
The deaths registered in the Borough amounted to 4067
but this includes those who died in one or other of the public
institutions of this Borough to which they had been taken from
outside districts in which they had previously been residents,
and it does not include persons who had been inhabitants of
Camberwell at the onset of their last illness, and who
were removed to hospitals, etc., outside the boundaries of the
Borough where they died. Those in the first category have
been subtracted from and those in the second added to the
total of deaths. Where it has been possible all persons
have been allotted to the registration districts in which they