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adopt, as I have always done, the latter plan, and
estimate accordingly the deaths in Dulwich to have
been 37 + 4 = 41; those in Camberwell, 707 — 214 +
49 = 542; those in Peckham, 895 + 90 = 985; and
those in St. George's, 710 + 71 = 781.
Upon the above estimates, the death-rate of Dulwich
for the year just passed was .9924 per cent.; that
of Camberwell, 1.717; that of Peckham, 2.312; that
of St. George's, 2.227; and that of the entire parish,
2.0868; or, in other words, in Dulwich about 10 persons
died in 1000; in Camberwell, 17; in Peckham,
a little over 23; in St, George's, a little less than 23,
and in the parish generally not quite 21.
There is no doubt that these death-rates are highly
satisfactory, for while that of Dulwich is marvellously
low, that of the whole parish is lower than that
of the whole metropolis has ever been, certainly since
the year 1840, and lower than that of any of the
five groups of metropolitan districts has ever been during
the same period, excepting only in the year 1850,
(a remarkably healthy year), when the mortuary rates
for the west and north districts were 1.964 and 1.98
per cent. respectively; and the death-rates even of
Peckham and of St. Georges's are high only by comparison.