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In other words, to every 1000 persons in the Parish
generally about 38 children were born; but in
Dulwich, only about 17; in Camberwell, about 34;
in Peckham, about 39; and in St. George's, about 34.
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Before determining the death-rate, it is essential
to make some redistribution of certain deaths occuring
in Public Institutions, namely the Workhouse
and the two Lunatic Asylums. These occur almost
exclusively in the Camberwell district, a few, however,
in that of Peckham; but they do not really belong to
these districts more than to the other districts of the
Parish. We shall therefore, as we have hitherto done,
divide them proportionately among the several
districts.

The death-rates calculated on the above data
are for Camberwell Parish, 1.94 per cent; for
Dulwich, 9; for Camberwell district, 1.86; for