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than it has been for several years past. And hence there are
good a priori grounds to anticipate the discovery of the prevalence
throughout the parish of a comparatively high deathrate,
independent of the existence of special local causes of
unhealthiness.
In former reports I have, when comparing the different parts
of Camberwell with one another, excluded from computation
the deaths occurring in the Lunatic asylums and in the Workhouse.
By adopting this plan still, the number of deaths
(estimated for 365.25 days) occurring in the several districts
becomes for Dulwich 22, for Camberwell 385, for St. George's
443, and for Peckham 688 ; and the death-rates per cent, become,
if the population has increased at the rate of increase of the
South of London, for Dulwich 1.21, for Camberwell 1.72, for
St. George's 2.07, and for Peckham 2.33 ; if the population has
increased according to its former rate of increase, for Dulwich
1.25, for Camberwell 1.73, for St. George's 2.05, and for
Peckham 2.22; but if calculated on the estimate of the population
derived from the number of births, for Dulwich 1.55, for
Camberwell 1.82, for St. George's 1.87, and for Peckham 2.15.
On comparing the above estimates with those given in former
years, the differences will be found to be of no very significant
importance.
My deductions from the foregoing lengthy analysis are these:—
the death-rate of Camberwell during 1863 was, like that of
London and of England generally, somewhat in excess of what
it had been during several preceding years; the death-rate of
Camberwell was below that of London and of any of its five
groups of districts; the death-rates of the sub-districts varied
among themselves (as they always have varied) the death-rate
of Peckham being (as it always has been) the highest; none
of the death-rates, not even that of Peckham, has been