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CAM 12
Camberwall
Appendix I. to Annual Report.
Report of the medical Officer of health.
The population of London as used by the Registrar General for
the calculation of the birth and death rates is estimated at 4,758,218
at the middle of 1907.
The number of births registered in the county totalled 122,205,
being over 3,000 less than in 1906. The birth rate, therefore, shows
a reduction of 0.9 on the previous year, and one of 2 on the 1902-6
average. The total deaths registered for the same period were
70,013. In this number are included the deaths of Londoners who
died in the various asylums, &c., outside the boundaries of the County,
and in respect of whom it was possible to ascertain any information
as regards their previous whereabouts, but it does not include those
whose deaths occurred in London but who had not previously had
a permanent residence therein. The death rate consequently works
out at 14.6 per thousand, a reduction of 0.5 on the previous year
and of no less than 1.1 on the average for the live years 1902-6.
The practice of estimating the population on the number of
persons per assessment has been continued in this report. The
procedure is to take in the census year the number of persons
enumerated and the number of assessments; from this we obtain
the average figure for each individual assessment in each of the
wards of the Borough. To ascertain the population for any year
subsequent to the census it is only necessary to multiply these, as
ascertained from the rate book, by the factor which was fixed in the
census year.
Table A.—Population of Camberwell and Sub-Districts.
Borough.
Dulwich.
South
Camberwell.
North
Camberwell.
South
Peckham.
North
Peckham.
St.
George's.
As enumerated at
census 1896
253,076
7,519
90,286
88,242
67,029
90,465
65,589
As enumerated at
census 1901
259,339
93,038
10,247
As calculated for
middle of 1903
92,079
94,286
65,283
262,968
11,214
As calculated for
middle of 1904
94,323
14,259
108,028
47,449
265,139
As calculated for
middle of 1905
94,856
14,677
110,648
47,420
267,594
As calculated for
middle of 1906
45,125
66,598
45,585
49,682
15,130
48,033
270,153
67,195
As calculated for
middle of 1907
45,915
49,872
48,660
272,479
15,600
45,831