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Death-rates in Camberwell and its Sub-Districts for the past 10 years.
Year.
Borough.
Dulwich.
South
Camberwell.
North
Camberwell.
South
Peckham.
North
Peckham.
St.
George's.
1898
16.70
10.05
15.07
18.74
17.03
10.60
15.30
17.68
19.01
1899
19.05
1900
16.54
14.24
10.14
17.96
18.59
1901
16.49
7.51
13.91
18.41
18.81
16.34
8.07
1902
14.53
17.01
19.13
7.57
14.10
13.80
1903
13.04
15.39
6.66
15.16
1904
12.07
16.11
22.97
13.8
13.40
9.87
1905
14.18
15.60
9.5
15.5
l2.7
16.5
11.7
1906
14.8
15.6
1907
14.0
9.0
14.9
12.6
11.2
16.1
16.1
Beginning with 1903, there has been a very decided fall in the
death-rate, slightly interrupted by a rise in 1904. This event
is, no doubt, partially due to the healthier conditions of weather, for
improved conditions of existence, and especially of prosperity, can
hardly have had any great influence.
The year made a bad start, for owing to the cold weather there
was a decided increase in the number of deaths in the first weeks,
especially among the very young and the old; nevertheless, the
subsequent lessening of the number of deaths brings the figures for
the year to the reduced rate of 14.0. Turning to the rates in the
sub-districts, it will be seen that North Camberwell and North
Peckham, now that they have been separated from the southern
divisions, show a rate which is an increase on that for the old
combined districts, and which has not shown a decrease concomitant
with those of the other sub-districts for the past year.
The actual number of deaths to be credited to the Borough was
176 less than in 1906, and of this deficiency 137 were in the class of
children under one year.
The question of infantile mortality still holds the field before
the public, and attention continues to be given to measures which
are considered likely to influence its decrease. Milk depots, health
visitors, and the instruction of young girls in the duties of motherhood
have each had their respective advocates. Perhaps most
attention is now beginning to centre round the mother and the
necessity for her welfare during pregnancy. This idea is based
on the principle of the necessity of the mother being healthy
before she can bear and rear healthy children. But it is