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years. Further a difference of 4 per 1,000 between
the death-rates of Peckham and St. George's is
certainly not accounted for by anything on the face
of the mortuary tables, (d)—The addition of the
deaths of those parishioners who have died out of
the Parish would probably add to the death-rate.
It is impossible, however, to find out what such
addition should be. But, on the other hand, persons
living away occasionally come home to die, and the
inmates of the Lunatic Asylums are in large proportion
non-parishioners.
Let us tentatively assume the birth-rates to
be fixed quantities, and ascertain the populations from
them. We will take the birth-rate in Dulwich to
have been in 1877 what it was in 1871, namely, 22
per 1,000; the birth-rate of Peckham and St. George's
to be each 36.5 (for there is probably no real
difference between them); and the birth-rate of
Camberwell to be 35. On these assumptions the
population of Dulwich in the middle of 1877 would
have been 4,333, that of Camberwell 41,314, that of
Peckham 62,712, that of St. George's 46,328, and
that of the whole Parish consequently 154,687, with
a birth-rate of 35.7—results which, I confess, seem
to me probably much nearer the truth than those