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no more properly belong to them than they do to the other
districts of the Parish, and if included in the mortality of
these districts would unduly and unfairly swell their deathrates.
I have, therefore, as I have always hitherto done,
distributed them among the sub-districts in proportion to
the deaths (apart from these) due to each. The steps of this
calculation arc shewn in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th columns of
the Table, and the final result in the last column. It may
be added that even so there is a little unfairness to the
Parish, inasmuch as many of the deaths in the lunatic
asylums are of persons who do not properly belong to the
Parish ; and a little undue partiality to the sub-district of
Camberwell and in a less degree to that of Peckham, inasmuch
as in the former the populations in the workhouse,
infirmary, lunatic asylums, and St. Saviour's Infirmary, and
in the latter the populations of the Gordon Road and Willowbrook
Infirmaries, are included in the populations as given
in the census returns. I have, of course, excluded from
consideration the deaths occurring in St. Saviour's Infirmary,
which amounted to 663.