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the last column of Table VII., and the populations as calculated
tor the middle of 1885, given in Table IV. These
death-rates are furnished in Table VIII., which also presents
for comparison the death-rates for 1884.

It will be observed that the death-rates are, with the
exception of that of St. George's, all of them lower than those
of the year 1884; and in St. George's the difference is so
slight as not to be worthy of notice. The death-rates are
all remarkably low; and, indeed, as I remarked in my last
two reports, they are so low that it is impossible not to suspect
the presence of some fallacy. Not improbably my
estimates of the populations are greater than the actual
populations, an error which leads to an under-estimation of
the mortuary-rates. Another cause of fallacy I have been
enabled to deal with in my last two Annual Reports, that,
namely, which arises from the deaths of parishioners in
hospitals and elsewhere beyond the limits of the parish.
For the last three years I have received from the RegistrarGeneral's
office weekly returns of these deaths; and I have
tabulated these supplemental deaths for 1885 in Table X.;
they amounted to 282, of which 7 were due to Dulwich, 79
to Camberwell, 153 to Peckham, and 43 to St. George's.
The addition of these deaths to those registered in the
parish, and with which alone I have hitherto dealt, must
necessarily increase the death-rates of the parish and of its constituent
parts. Table XI. shews both the augmented deaths
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