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The deaths were less numerous than those of 1887 by 238
In Dulwich there was an increase of one; but in all the
other districts there was a fall: in Camber well, of 147;
in Peckham, of 34; and in St. George's, of 58.
Of the 1,425 deaths returned for the sub-district of
Camberwell, 345 occurred in the Workhouse and Infirmary,
and 83 in two Lunatic Asylums, making a total of of 428
deaths, which, though included in the mortuary returns of
this sub-district, no more belong properly to it than they
do to the other sub-districts of the Parish. In order to
determine the death-rates of the sub-districts, it is necessary
to distribute these deaths proportionately among them.
This has been done in Table VII.. the last column of which
gives the corrected returns.
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The death-rates of Camberwell and of its sub-districts
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