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These districts are those that are adopted for the purposes of registration; they are for
the most part identical with the Poor Law Unions of the same names; or, as in the cases
of Islington and Camberwell, are complete parishes, each with its own Board of Guardians.
Increase of population is seen in most of the districts just enumerated; but on the other
hand, St. George's, Hanover-square, St. Giles's, Strand, Holborn, Shoreditch, Whitechapel,
St. George's-in-the-East, and very notably London Proper, show considerable
decline, due to the extension of railway works and great Metropolitan improvements.
Islington has increased by 68,850—about one third of the population in 1871—but a
similar vast increase is also seen in many other places.
London, south of the Thames, now has a population of 1,265,578, against 967,692 in
1871; hence the increase of population is 297,886, and the decennial rate nearly 31 per
cent., which is not far from three time3 as high as that for North London. These returns
London, south of the Thames, now has a population of 1,265,578, against 967,692 in
1871; hence the increase of population is 297,886, and the decennial rate nearly 31 per
cent., which is not far from three time3 as high as that for North London. These returns
are thus epitomised:—
District.
Population,
1871.
Population,
1881.
St. Saviour, Southwark
175,049
195,111
St. Olive, Southwark
122,398
134,586
Lambeth
208,342
253,569
Wandsworth
125,060
210,397
Camberwell
111,306
186,555
Greenwich
100,600
131,264
Lewisham
51,557
73,314
Woolwich
73,380
80,782
Total South London
967,692
1,265,578
The district of St. Saviour, Southwark, now includes, amongst others, the parish of
Newington; while that of St. Olive takes in Rotherhithe and Bermondsey. Newington
showed considerable advance, while Christ Church and St. Saviour's parishes have both
declined. St. James's, Bermondsey, and Rotherhithe have advanced, the former from
47,933 to 54,662, and the latter from 27,096 to 36,010. Of the Lambeth sub-districts,
Brixton shows great increase, namely, from 35,435 to 62,817, and Norwood from 12,536
to 19,017. The Wandsworth district, which includes the parishes of Clapham, Battersea,
Wandsworth, Putney, and Streatham, has nearly doubled itself in ten years, the subdistricts
of Battersea rising from 54,016 to 107,248; Wandsworth, from 19,783 to
28,005; Putney, from 9,439 to 13,221; and Streatham, from 12,148 to 25,545. The
parish of Camberwell has increased from 111,306 to 186,555; the sub-district of Peckham
advancing from 42,160 to 71,065; St. Giles, from 31,254 to 59,090; and St. George's,
from 33,851 to 50,810. Dulwich, with its extensive College lands, only advances from
4,041 to 5,590. Sydenham has increased from 19,065 to 26,070.
From the figures furnished by Sir Brydges Henneker, it will be seen
that our population has increased from 120,104 m 1871, to 127,006 in
1881, an increase of 6902, a rate of 5.7 percent., against 14.3 per cent,
for the decade, 1861 to 1871. The increase seems to have occurred
chiefly in the Green and Church Sub-Districts, the Hackney road and
Town Districts both showing au actual decrease.