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well 24,848, Peckham 38,152, and St. Georges 24,968.
But if their populations be calculated from the births, the
following very different results are arrived at:—Dulwich
2,384, Camberwell 29,481, Peckham42,396, and St. George's
39,258. Now although I do not place great reliance on
either of these series of estimates, I have no doubt, for
reasons which have been already given, that the latter
series approximates much more nearly to the truth than
the other.
The registered mortality of the Camberwell sub-district
is unduly swelled by the inclusion of a number of deaths
which occur in the workhouse and in two lunatic asylums
and which belong really no more to this sub-district than
to any one of the others. No less than 271 deaths occurred
in these institutions. Now if this number be deducted from
the total registered deaths for Camberwell, and be distributed
amongst the four sub-districts in proportion to
the number of deaths which then stand against their
names, we obtain the following approximation to the true
mortality of the several sub-districts—Dulwich 46, Camberwell
565, Peckham 892, and St. George's 865.
The death-rates spring out of the above figures. Calculating
them on the first series of population-estimates, the
death-rate for Dulwich was 2.55 per cent. that for Camberwell
2'27, that for Peckham 2.34, and that of St. George's
3.46 ; calculating it on the latter (and, as I think, more
accurate) series the death-rate for Dulwich was T93, that
for Camberwell 1.92, that for Peckham 2.10, and that for St.
George's 2.20.
Thus the mortuary rates alone of Camberwell and of its