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TABLE I. —BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND CORRECTED BIRTH-RATES AND DEATHRATES
OF LONDON AND ITS GROUPS OF DISTRICTS FOR 1900.
London.
West D.
North D.
Central
D.
East D.
South D.
Metropolitan
Asylums
and
Hospitals
outside
London.
Births
25,692
51,194
130,868
19,238
28,460
6,284
-
30,914
Deaths
86,007
14,259
18,220
4,762
15,962
1,890
-
Birth-Rates
29.2
28.6
24.0
26.3
26.8
35.4
Death-Rates
(corrected)
18.3
16.6
16.7
22.3
21.9
18.0
-
Table II. shews the estimated population of Camberwell
and its registration sub-districts at the middle of 1899, and also at
the middle of 1900. These estimates are based on the assumption
that the rate of increase in the population has continued
in the same proportion as in the years 1891-6, but as I pointed
out in my report last year, the figures are probably over
estimated. The estimated population obtained by taking the
average number of persons per assessment existing in previous
years is 263,593. This method of calculation, however, is open
to some objection, as in Camberwell there were formerly many
single houses with large grounds which are now rapidly giving
way to streets of smaller houses, each of which, although
assessed as one house, is let out to two families.
TABLE II. —POPULATION OF CAMBERWELL AND ITS SUB-DISTRICTS.
Parish.
Dulwich
Camberwell.
Peckham.
St.
George's
As enumerated at census,
1896
253,076
90,286
67,029
88,242
7,519
As calculated for middle
of 1899
265,385
96,379
91,476
69,520
8,018
As calculated for middle
of 1900
92,495
269,276
98,335
70,305
8,178
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