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death rate until they have been corrected. There are several institutions
in Camberwell where there are patients removed from other parts
of London. For instance, we have the Southwark Infirmary, to which
patients are removed from that district and to which should be
assigned their deaths if they should die in this institution. Then
there are the lunatic asylums. But what happens to Southwark
also occurs with us, for there are many inhabitants of Camberwell
who die in hospitals outside its boundaries, and, with the advent of
the sanatorium, this number must of necessity increase, for there
will now be many more persons removed who would otherwise have
died at home. Lastly, there remains a small section in a category by
themselves—they are persons who are chargeable in the books of the
various institutions to Camberwell, but whose address here was so
indefinite that they cannot be assigned to any of the districts, but
have to be distributed among them proportionately to the recorded
deaths in each.
Redistribution of Deaths among the Sub-Districts of
Camberwell.
Deaths of
persons removed
from unknown
addresses in
the Borough
redistributed.
Estimates
of total
deaths
due to subdistricts.
Deaths returned
classified
according to
sub-districts.
District.
Dulwich
141
2
143
Camberwell, South
495
7
502
Camberwell, North
942
13
955
Peckham, South
609
8
617
Peckham, North
749
759
10
St. George's
633
9
642
3,569
Total
49
3,618
Calculated on our own figures, the death rate for 1914 for
the whole Borough appears at 13.6. The Registrar-General in
his annual summary states the crude death rate to be 13.7, but
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 decreased during the past year from 13.9 in
1913 to 13.6. From being the eleventh lowest in the list of the
twenty-nine London boroughs it becomes the tenth; while it still
holds the fourth position among the boroughs on the south side of
the Thames.