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tive rates of increase during the previous ten years, the
population of Camberwell in the middle of 1867, was 84543,
that of Dulwich was 1782, that of the Camberwell subdistrict
23958, that of Peckham 35437, and that of St.
George's 23756. But, as I have shown in my last annual
report, there are many grave reasons for believing that
the rate of increase, especially the rate of increase in some
of the sub-districts, has been very much greater than that
which previous experience would have led us to believe.
Throughout England, the birth-rate, according to the
Registrar General, is 3.314 per cent. of the population;
and assuming that this has been the birth-rate in Camberwell,
the population of the parish must have been in the
middle of last year 102983, instead of 84543 ; that of
Dulwich 1808, instead of 1782; that of the Camberwell
sub-district 26190, instead of 23958; that of Peckham
39904, instead of 35437 ; and that of St. George's 35081,
instead of 23756.
The death-rates calculated on the first estimate of
population are—for Camberwell 2432 per cent., for Dulwich
2.076, for Camberwell sub-district 2.007, for Peckham
2.087, and for St. George's 2.913. The death-rates,
calculated on the second estimate, are—for Camberwell
1.996, for Dulwich 2.046, for Camberwell sub-district 1.83,
for Peckham 2.12, and for St. George's 1.95.
Of the two series of estimates of population and of
death-rates, I have no doubt that the latter of both are the
most nearly correct. I have no doubt, especially, that the