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The largest industry in Camberwell is to be found in the
northern part of the Borough, that of the manufacture of gas
and its by-products, at the works of the South Metropolitan Gas
Co., Old Kent Road.
Apart from this there are no particular businesses or trades
beyond those usually associated with a working class neighbourhood.
GENERAL STATISTICS, 1925.
Area (acres) 4,480
Population (Census 1921) 267,198
Do. (estimated 1925) 275,400
Number of inhabited houses (Census, 1921) 41,419
Do. do. do. (approximately, 1925) 45,115
Number of families or separate occupiers, 1921 66,104
Rateable value £1,421,153
Sum represented by a penny rate, about £5,810
Poor Law Relief.
The total expenditure of the Camberwell Board of Guardians
for the financial year ended 31st March, 1925, was £483,377 9s. 4d.
The admissions to the Board's institutions during the period
under review numbered 14,904.
The number of persons relieved was: —
In-door. Out-door. Medical relief only.
11,352. 36,762. 689.
Population. —The Registrar-General has estimated the
population of the Borough at the middle of 1925 to be 275,400,
and it is upon this figure that the death and birth rates are
calculated.