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CAM 16
Chamberwell
1912
PROOF.
Report of the medical officer of health.
To The Worshipful the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Borough of Camberwell.
GENTLEMEN,
The population of the area comprised in the jurisdiction of the
London County Council at the middle of the year 1912 is estimated
by the Registrar-General to amount to 4,519,754. This is about
1,500 less than that given as the number for the corresponding
period of 1911. As pointed out by the Registrar-General, the population
of the Administrative County of London has declined from
4,536,267 in 1901. And, indeed, this is not surprising when one
contemplates the enormous number of workers in London who,
instead of living within it, now come in every day from the districts
surrounding it, and which, not so very long ago, were rightly called
" the country."
The number of births registered in London during the 52 weeks
ending December 28th was 110,353, while for the previous year it
was 111,738, compared with 114,870 in 1910. The birth-rate, therefore,
shows a diminution of ·3 for the present year, and the rate is
said to be the lowest on record since civil registration was introduced.
As is probably well known, each birth in London has to be
notified to its local Sanitary Authority, and the Registrar-General
gives 92.0 per cent. as the proportion of such notifications to
registrations.
The deaths registered for the same period and within the same
limit were 61,473, but to give the number which will represent the
deaths of Londoners, it is necessary to subtract 3,092 deaths of nonresidents
which occurred within the County of London and to add
2,719, which, although they occurred outside the limit, are those of
inhabitants. Of these, a substantial proportion are those that
took place in the larger institutions, such as lunatic asylums, &c.,
many of which are situated outside the boundary. After this has
been done, the correct total works out at 61,100 as the number of
deaths actually to be assigned to the county for 1912.
The population of Camberwell, which we calculated on the basis
of so many persons per assessment, is estimated by us to amount to
263,536, and by the Registrar-General, who uses the more usual
method of calculation, to be 261,591.
Below is set out the population for the Borough and for the
different registration sub-districts.