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of the district hospitals for the reception of infectious
cases has within the last few years tended to increase
the error due to this circumstance. I am glad,
therefore, to be able to state that during the last
year we have been furnished weekly from the
General Register Office with a list of all the deaths
due to the Parish occuring in public institutions
outside the limits of the Parish; and to be able to
lay before you in Table X these supplemental
mortuary returns.
It will be seen from the table that 171
parishioners died outside the Parish, of whom one
belonged to Dulwich, 51 to the Camberwell subdistrict,
57 to Peckham, and 51 to St. George's,
and of whom the place of residence of 11 could not
be ascertained. It will be seen also that this supplemental
list includes one death from hooping-cough?
4 deaths from scarlet fever, 9 deaths from diphtheria,
7 deaths from fever, and 14 deaths from small-pox.
It will be admitted that 171 deaths is not an
inconsiderable addition to the mortality of the
Parish. But on the other hand I may point out that
the 91 deaths occuring in the Lunatic Asylums were
not chiefly the deaths of Parishioners; and that we have
here an offset against that addition, which would