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births as concerning the future well-being of the race, and, further,
that the reduction in the birth-rate has been accompanied by a
reduction in the number of deaths of infants under a year, together
with a general lessening of those at all ages.
The total number of deaths due to the Borough was 176 less than
in the previous year. As I have previously said, this figure differs
from the number registered in the Borough. For the sake of
accuracy it has been necessary to exclude the deaths of the persons
dying in St. Saviour's Infirmary, who are really parishioners of
Southwark, and who are only removed here when ill. The two
lunatic asylums also receive patients from Camberwell and other
parts, so that any fatal cases among the latter class should find no
place in our death records. The deaths of inhabitants of the
Borough who happen to have been taken for their last illness to
hospitals, &c., outside the Borough boundary must, on the other
hand, be included among our deaths.
Re-Distribution of Deaths among the Sub-Districts of
Camberwell.
District.
Deaths returned
classified
according to
sub-districts.
Deaths of
persons removed
from unknown
addresses in
the Borough
re-distributed.
Estimates
of total
deaths
due to subdistricts.
6
Dulwich
136
142
South Camberwell
497
16
513
North Camberwell
979
24
1,003
566
16
South Peckham
582
787
805
18
North Peckham
St. George's
761
17
778
Total
3,726
97
3,823
As a result of the calculations that have been referred to above,
the death-rate works out at 14.0 per 1,000 per annum, a decrease of
0‘8 on the previous year, a reduction which coming on a previously low
rate is eminently satisfactory. The Registrar-General's calculation
is even a little less than the above, a difference which is probably
due to his estimate of the population being calculated by a different
method from that adopted above, by which it is taken as 277,059,
whereas we reckon it as 272,479.
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