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St Giles (Camberwell) 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]
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deaths of the parish and its sub.districts due to this
addition, and the augmented death.rates. The latter
however (as may be seen by comparing table XI with
table VIII) present only a very slight increase and are
still exceptionally and gratifyingly low.
Table IX, together with the supplemental table X,
exhibits in detail the returns of births and deaths for the
year, arranged both according to districts and according
to seasons. It gives also the ages at death and the more
important causes of death.
Table XI.—Deaths and Death.rates of Camberwell and its
sub.distrtcts obtained by including the 186 deaths which occurred in hospitals and elsewhere outside the parish.
| Dulwich. | Camber. well. | Peckham. | St. George's. | Parish. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths | 63 | 1,168 | 1,586 | 1,135 | 3,954 |
| Death.rates | 10.1 | 16.1 | 18.8 | 19.6 | 17.9 |
I here is not much of special importance in these
tables to which attention should be directed. I must point
out, however, that there is a kind of contradiction between
the general lowness of mortality on the one hand, and the
ages at death and causes of death on the other. For
while the mortuary rates imply unusual healthiness of
the parish, the year has been characterised by an excessive
mortality among young children, and by a general
increase of the death.rate due to zymotic or so.called
preventible' diseases. Thus the deaths of children, under
one year of age, were 1082, in place of 896 in the year
1888; and the deaths from Hooping.cough rose from 91
to Ii8, those from Measles from 112 to 171, those from
Diphtheria from 49 to 78, those from Scarlet.fever from