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ii.
possible plan, for calculation based on the other method would
imply that the population is still actually diminishing, as it
undoubtedly did in the old district previous to 1901, owing, to
the large clearances of houses that took place at that time.
Not only this, but the method would be impossible of
application, for the old Registration districts have been altered
by sub division and re-arrangement of boundaries, so that no
accurate figures are available for purposes of comparison. At
the same time, judging from the excess of births over deaths
recorded week by week for St. George's, one is led to believe
that the population there must be increasing to a greater extent
than is shown, there being no evidence that an appreciable
amount of emigration is going on from this district.
The population for the whole Borough has been
calculated by adding up the estimated population for each of
the twenty wards.

The most striking feature in this portion of the report
is the steady growth in South Camberwell and Dulwich,
where the Borough is fast becoming more thickly populated
in contrast with the stationary and receding numbers in
North Camberwell and St. George's.