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As far as possible all these deaths have been assigned to the
registration sub-districts of the Borough, so that a comparison may
be instituted between them; but it does not necessarily mean that
any particular district is unhealthy because it has a high death-rate.
Among the deaths registered outside the Borough there are some
who have died, perhaps after a sojourn of many years, in one of the
large institutions outside London, but who were in the first place
removed from Camberwell. In such instances it is often impossible
to trace the exact address in the Borough from which they have
been removed. They have consequently been redistributed to the
various sub-districts in proportion to the deaths which could be
definitely assigned.

The death-rate for the Borough is thus 13·9, calculated on our
estimate of the population. The Registrar-General in his Annual
Summary gives the crude death-rate for Camberwell as 13·7 which
when corrected for the differences of sex and age constitution between
it and the rest of the County of London comes out at 13·6. The
death-rate of the Borough increased in 1913 to 13·9 from 12·8 in
1912, in which year Camberwell was the tenth lowest among all
the London Boroughs, whereas it is now the eleventh, and it comes
fourth on the list of those Boroughs on the south side, Wandsworth,
Lewisham, and Woolwich being below it, whereas last year it was
fifth on the list.