Sixth annual report of the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell...

  • Camberwell (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
1906
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Credit: Sixth annual report of the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell... Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    iii Table B—Births in Camberwell and its Sub-Districts. Camberwell. St. George's. Borough. Dulwich. Peckham. 1904 7,242 181 2,735 2,613 1,713 6,934 208 1905 2,731 2,611 1,384 Difference -308 +27 —4 —2 —329 The birth rate shows a decline in all the sub-districts with the exception of Dulwich, which shows an increase. The subject was referred to in my report for last year, and I have seen no reason to alter the opinion therein expressed, namely, that it is the quality of the infants that are born that is of far more consequence than the number. Table C—Birth Rates of Camberwell and its Sub-Districts. I Borough. Dulwich. Camberwell. Peckham. St. George's. 36·10 12·69 1904 27·3 25·08 27·7 14·1 1905 25·9 24·6 27·5 29·1 As with the number so it is with the rate, the great fall, however, in St. George's is due to the fact that owing to the alteration of the boundaries of St. George's there is a consequent diminution in the number of its births. The deaths registered in the Borough amounted to 4067 but this includes those who died in one or other of the public institutions of this Borough to which they had been taken from outside districts in which they had previously been residents, and it does not include persons who had been inhabitants of Camberwell at the onset of their last illness, and who were removed to hospitals, etc., outside the boundaries of the Borough where they died. Those in the first category have been subtracted from and those in the second added to the total of deaths. Where it has been possible all persons have been allotted to the registration districts in which they
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