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St Giles (Camberwell) 1886
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]
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These supplemental deaths are set forth in Table X.
They amounted in 1886 to 184, of which 3 belonged to
Dulwich, 59 to Camberwell, 89 to Peckham, and 33 to
St. George's.
Table XI shews both the augmented deaths of the parish
and its sub-districts due to this addition, and the augmented
death rates. It is satisfactory to find that the corrected
death rates are still singularly low.
Table XT.—Deaths and Death Rates of Camberwell and of its Sub Districts obtained by including the 184 Deaths which occurred in Hospitals and elsewhere outside the Parish.
| Dulwich. | Camberwell. | Peckham. | St. George's | Parish. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths | 65 | 1,241 | 1,659 | 1,212 | 4,177 |
| Death rates | 9.8 | 15.0 | 17.7 | 19.3 | 17.0 |
Tables IX and X give the details of the returns of births
and deaths for the year arranged both according to districts
and according to seasons. They also include an enumeration
of the deaths according to age and according to disease.
I proceed to make a few remarks on the facts disclosed
by these tables.
The deaths of young children are always relatively very
numerous, and it is not therefore surprising to find that
out of the total parochial deaths (4,177) no fewer than 1,817
were of children under five years of age; in other words, of every
100 deaths, 43.5 occurred during the first five years of life.
But the proportion of young deaths to total deaths varies
considerablu in the different sub-discricts. Thus, in Dulwich,
where both death rate and birth-rate are low, there were