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St Giles (Camberwell) 1887
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]
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The death-rate of Camberwell and its component subdistricts
have been deduced from the figures representing the
parochial deaths given in the last column of Table VII., and
from those giving the populations calculated for the middle of
1887 contained in Table IV. The following table comprises
these death-rates, and, for the sake of comparison, those of
1886.
| Deaths returned. | Deaths in W.&L. A. | Deaths in W.&L. A. subtracted. | Deaths in W. & L. A. redistributed. | Estimates of Deaths due to Districts. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ... | |||||
It will be observed not only that the death-rates are all
remarkably low (considerably lower even than the lowest of
the death-rates for the groups of Metropolitan districts, which
I have already quoted from the Registrar-General's returns),
but that on the whole they arc lower than those of the year
1886, In Dulwich it is true there is a slight increase, and
in Camberwell the rate remains stationary; but in Peckham
and in St George's, and also in the whole Parish, there is a
marked decrease.
For reasons which I discussed in my last year's report,.
I entertain little doubt that the lowness of the death-rates is
not wholly due to healthiness of the population, but that
accidental circumstances of various kinds have influenced the
figures, especially in certain districts. One source of fallacy
is the fact that a considerable number of deaths due to the
Parish occur annually in institutions outside the Parish.