[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell].

  • St. Giles Camberwell (Parish : Surrey, England)
Date:
1879
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: City of London, London Metropolitan Archives

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    67 Enumerated Deaths. Deaths in Workhouse and Lunatic Asylums. Deaths in Workhouse and Lunatic Asylums re distributed. Corrected Estimate of Deaths. Dulwich 55 ... + 6 =61 Camberwell 1057 — 340 + 82 = 799 Peckham 1322 ... + 149 =1471 St. George's 914 ... + 103 = 1017 Deduced from the above estimates of population and corrected estimates of deaths, the death-rates per 1,000 for 1878 were, for Dulwich, 8T3; for Camber well, 19.35; for Peckham, 2G03; for St. George's, 20.78; and for the entire Parish, 21.79. On com paring these death-rates with those for London as a whole, and with those for the five groups of districts into which London is divided, it will be seen that those for the Camberwell sub-district, for St. George's, and for the whole Parish, are extremely favourable, but that that for Peckham is very high, while that for Dulwich is incredibly low. There are reasons, however, for believing that the increase of population, whether for the sub districts or for the Parish as a whole, has not continued at the rates deduced from the Census returns. The