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the mean population for the year) would have
amounted to 7,500; that of Camberwell to 41,271;
that of Peckham to 56,520; that of St. George's to
48,995; and that of the whole Parish to upwards of
153,000, or, if obtained by adding together the
estimated populations of its sub-districts, to 154,286.
It is necessary also, before proceeding to calculate
the death-rates of the different parts of the Parish, to
make some re-arrangement of the deaths. The Camberwell
sub-district contains the Workhouse and two
Lunatic Asylums, of which the deaths (349 in number)
are only accidentally (so to speak) attributed to this
sub-district. They belong as much to one part of the
Parish as to another, and in comparing the mortuary
rates of the sub-districts with one another, must either
be omitted or be divided pro rata among them. To
omit them, however, would be to give a fallacious
appearance of salubrity to the sub-districts of the
Parish, as compared with the Parish as a whole, or
with other localities. I have therefore deducted them
from the Mortuary Return of the sub-district of Camberwell,
and have re-distributed them among all the
sub-districts, in proportion to the numbers of deaths
otherwise occurring in them, as shewn in the following
Table:—