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Daring the last few years these have been supplied to us
through the General Register Office, and I have been enabled
therefore to correct the fallacy due to this cause.
The supplemental deaths here referred to are set forth
in Table X. They amounted in 1887 to 232, of which 4 belonged
to Dulwich, 88 to Camberwell, 93 to Peckham, and
47 to St. George's.
Table XI. shows both the augmented deaths of the
Parish and of its sub-districts due to this addition, and the
augmented death-rates. It will be seen that the corrected
death-rates are still singularly low.
Table XI.—Deaths and Death-Rates of Camberwell and of
its Sub-Districts obtained by including the 232 Deaths which
occurred in Hospitals and elsewhere outside the Parish.
Dulwich.
Camberwell.
Peckham.
St.
George's
Parish.
Deaths
70
1,348
1,577
1,248
4,243
Death-rates
10.2
15.3
16.0
19.1
16.5
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 ages and according
to diseases.
The deaths, as is always the case, are very unequally
distributed among the different periods of life. Thus of the
total parochial deaths for the year—namely, 1243—no fewer
than 1,869, or 44 per cent., occurred under the age of 5. In
Dulwich, where the birth-rate and death-rate are very low,