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St Giles (Camberwell) 1866

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

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20
Lunatic Asylums, in which the deaths were 99. These make a
total of 218 deaths, which are attributed by accident only, as it
were, to this sub-district of the Parish. For the purpose of
instituting a fair comparison between the several sub-districts
these deaths should be subtracted from the mortality of the
sub-district of Camberwell; but in order that the comparison
may be fair between our sub-districts and other parts of the
metropolis, they should not only be subtracted from the
mortality of Camberwell, but should then be divided in fair
proportion among all our sub-districts.* If such a distribution
of these deaths be made, the annual mortality becomes for
Dulwich 36, for Camberwell 509, for Peckham 828, and for St.
George's 677.

Table: All these numbers again are in advance of the corresponding numbers of former years, as will be seen by the subjoined table:—

All these numbers again are in advance of the corresponding numbers of former years, as will be seen by the subjoined table:—

Duiwich.Camberwell.Peckham.St. George's.
Births.Deaths.Births.Deaths.Births.Deaths.Birlhs.Deaths
1861422866848Cf972536709369
186240256815521002587765389
186346227115601108699823450
186453247746321156673999514
1865493179164911747061022521
1866663285267313187401085605

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*This has been done by first subtracting from the mortality of the subdistrict
of Camberwell the number of deaths occurring in the Workhouse and
Asylums, and by then dividing this number among the sub-districts in proportion
to their respective mortalities.
†The deaths in this column, include the deaths in the Workhouse and
Lunatic Asylums.