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In Table VI. the birth-rates for the Parish and its
component parts are given both for the year 1891 and for
the year 1892. The differences are almost inappreciable.

The complete mortality returns are given in Tables
IX. and X., to some of the facts set forth in which reference
will be made further on. But meanwhile Table VII. has
been constructed for the purpose of assisting to form as
correct an estimate as may be of the death-rates.
Table IX. gives the deaths due to the Parish, which
actually occurred, and were registered, within its limits.
But a considerable number of deaths due to the Parish took
place in hospitals and other such institutions placed outside
the Parish. These, with some approach to accuracy, are
given in Table X. For the purposes of the death-rate the
corresponding items in each have been added together, and
the combined numbers (representing the total mortality of
the Parish and of its sub-districts) are set forth in the first
column of Table VII. To Dulwich there are thus attributed
79 deaths, to Camberwell 1,699, to Peckham 1,616, to
St. George's 1,224, and consequently to the whole Parish
4,618. But Camberwell proper contains the workhouse and
infirmary in which 334 deaths occurred, and two lunatic
asylums in which 110 deaths occurred; and Peckham contains
two off-shoots of the workhouse in which 87 deaths occurred.
Now these deaths, though happening within these districts,