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from the Borough, for there was an excess of births over deaths of
something like 3,000 during 1914.
Below is set out the population for the Borough and for the
different registration sub-districts.

As it was last year, bo is it this, the increase in Dulwich being
still greater than in any other portion of the Borough, while in St.
George's there is an actual decrease. In some of the more thickly
populated parts it may be that, owing to the lessening of overcrowding,
there are fewer people who dwell therein, and in nearly
all the northern half of the Borough there have been clearances of
inhabited houses with the substitution of factories and other large
buildings.
The registrations of births in the Borough were 6.589, but to
them must be added those of children of Camberwell mothers
who were born out of Camberwell. In this category are placed
children whose birth took place in any of the large lying-in institutions
or in the general hospitals or infirmaries. The Registrar-General
in his proof figures credits this Borough with 6,671, the
difference between this and the actual registrations of 6,589,
probably representing the addition of the births of children of
Camberwell parentage who were born beyond its limits and the
subtraction of those born within the boundaries but whose parents
usually resided beyond them. Such births have been redistributed
among the registration districts in proportion to those actually
registered therein.