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St Giles (Camberwell) 1878

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

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Table: 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 deathsotherwise occurring in them, as shewn in the following Table

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

Enumerated Deaths.Deaths in Workhouse and Lunatic Asylums.Deaths in Workhouse and Lunatic Asylums redistributed.Corrected Estimate of Deaths.
Dulwich55...+ 6=61
Camberwell1057— 340+ 82= 799
Peckham1322...+ 149=1471
St. George's914...+ 103= 1017

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Deduced from the above estimates of population
and corrected estimates of deaths, the death-rates per
1,000 for 1878 were, for Dulwich, 8T3; for Camberwell,
19.35; for Peckham, 2G03; for St. George's,
20.78; and for the entire Parish, 21.79. On comparing
these death-rates with those for London as a
whole, and with those for the five groups of districts
into which London is divided, it will be seen that those
for the Camberwell sub-district, for St. George's, and
for the whole Parish, are extremely favourable, but
that that for Peckham is very high, while that for
Dulwich is incredibly low.
There are reasons, however, for believing that
the increase of population, whether for the subdistricts
or for the Parish as a whole, has not continued
at the rates deduced from the Census returns. The