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for, as I have shewn in former reports, all parts of the
parish, and especially Peckham and St. George's, have
increased far more rapidly lately than they did between
1851 and 1861, and the population of the
Parish is now therefore far more numerous than the
above calculations would lead one to believe. The
yearly increase in the number of inhabited houses,
the yearly increase in the number of children born in
the Parish, all shew this; and, indeed, calculating, as
I have done formerly, the population from the births
(assuming, as the Registrar-General has shewn to be
the case in England between 1851 and 1861, that for
every 100 persons living 3.314 children were born), the
population of Dulwich in the middle of 1868 was about
2011, instead of 1792; that of Camberwell about 27323
instead of 24399; that of Peckham about 44178
instead of 36770; that of St. George's about 38707
instead of 24355, and that of the whole Parish about
112218; instead of 86843. This may prove an exaggerated
estimate, but it is undoubtedly much nearer
the truth than that which precedes it. If it be correct,
the death-rate for Dulwich was 1.69 instead of 1.897;
that for Camberwell 2.115, instead of 2.368; that for
Peckham 2.11, instead of 2.537; that for St. George's
1.91 instead of 3.04; and that for Camberwell as a
whole 1.998, instead of 2.584.