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estimates are widely different. According to the first, the
population of the parish was, in the middle of the year,
78,734; according to the second, 80,837; according to
the third, 91,500. And the mortuary rates calculated on
these several estimates of population, are respectively 2.42,
2 36 and 2.08 per cent. Now even the first of these deathrates,
it will be seen, is less than that of either London, or
of its Northern, Central or Eastern districts; while the
last of them is far below that of either the Southern or the
Western group. The actual death-rate lies somewhere,
I have no doubt, between these extremes: nearer the last,
however, than the first.
The total number of deaths registered in the 52 weeks
of 1865 was 1907, of which 960 were of males, 947 of
females; and of which 31 occurred in Dulwich, 649 in
Camberwell, 706 in Peckham and 521 in St. George's.
Of the 649 returned from Camberwell proper, 120 occurred
in the workhouse and 80 in the lunatic asylums; and since
these 200 deaths are included by a kind of accident only
in the return of the Camberwell sub-district, they should
be deducted from that return, in comparing the health of
this sub-district with that of the other sub-districts; but
since, again, these deaths are chiefly parochial deaths, their
entire subtraction would render the Camberwell returns
unfairly favourable as compared with those of other Metropolitan
districts. To avoid the latter unfairness, I have
divided the 200 deaths proportionately among the several
subdistricts of the parish; and supply the following
amended statement of their mortality