View report page

24
lation greater than the results of these tables would have led us
to anticipate. Its truth is confirmed by the increase of the
number of houses in the parish since the beginning of 1861,*
and by the increase in the number of births, (Table V.) The
mean birth-rate of England, during the present century, has been
ascertained by the Registrar General to be 3.318 per cent., or
one birth to 30 persons living. There is no reason to suppose
that the birth-rate of Camberwell differs materially from this.
During the year 1863, 2688 births were registered in the parish.
For the purposes of comparison, this number (on the same
principles that have guided us with regard to the deaths in
1863,) must be reduced to 2646. Now if these births had
occurred in normal proportion to the population, the population
of the parish must have been, not 75,155 nor 76,437, but
actually at the end of the year 79,477—in the middle of the
year therefore about 78,244. The death-rate estimated for this
latter number, amounts to 2.18.
We will now compare the death-rates of the sub-districts of
Camberwell with one another. The population of Dulwich, in
1861, was 1723, and its increase in the previous ten years had
been 5.57 per cent. The population of Camberwell proper was