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foundation of all sanitary calculations, I will in limine briefly
enumerate those particulars relating to Camberwell of which
I have thus become possessed.
Statistics of Population, &c. (Table I.). In the ten years
which terminated in May, 1861, 16,821 persons were added
to the population of the parish of Camberwell; and the number
of inhabitants, which in 1851 was estimated at 54,667,
became consequently in 1861, 71,488. This is the largest
increase that has been observed daring any similar period in
the present century (Table II.) In the first decenniad (that
commencing in 1801, and ending in 1811) only 4250 persons
were added, in the second 6567, in the third 10,355, in the
fourth 11,637, and in the fifth, or the one immediately preceding
the last, not more than 14,799. It is by the ratio of
increase however (Table II.) that we must compare the
growth of Camberwell with that of other districts. Now,
although the increments during the six decennial periods of
this century have been successively greater, the ratio of increase
has gradually sunk. In the first period of ten years
the rate of increase was 60 per cent., in the second 58 per
cent., in the third also 58 per cent., in the fourth 41 per
cent., in the fifth 37 per cent., and in the last 31 per cent.
But while Camberwell increased during the last 10 years at
the rate of 31 per cent., London, notwithstanding its enormous
progress, notwithstanding that its population augmented
by 441,753 persons, shewed in the same period an increase of
only 18.7 per cent. Camberwell continues therefore to be one
of the most vigorous of the many vigorous parishes of which
the Metropolis is composed.
But the rate of growth of the several sab-districts of the
parish during the last ten years shewed great differences,
(Table I.) Thus, Dulwich increased by 91 persons, or from