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increase in the number of births in Camberwell may be due to
exceptioual circumstances in regard to the population,* some
portion to mere accident, but the greater part of is must
certainly be due to mere though considerable increase of adult
or child-producing population.
In my last report, as in former reports, I explained how
difficult it is to estimate the population of this parish and of
its several sub-divisions; and in my last report 1 gave in proof
of this three estimates founded on different data. I will give
three similar estimates now, and the death-rates calculated according
to these estimates.
1st.—If the people of Camberwell and of its sub-districts have
since 1861 increased at the same annual rate† as these of the
whole of South London increased between the census years
1851 and 1861, the population of Camberwell was in the midled
of 1864 76,979, that of Dulwich was 1856, that of Camberwell
proper 22,933, that of Peckham 30,296, that of St. George's
21,894 ; and the death-rates were for the whole parish 2.39 per
cent., for Dulwich 1.4, for Camberwell 2.13, for Peckham 2.48
and for St. George's 2.63.
2nd.—If the parish and its component parts increased according
to their own respective rates ‡ of increase during the ten
years, 1851-61, the population of the parish amounted in the
middle of the year to about 78,637, that of Dulwich to about
1754, that of Camberwell to about 22,684, that of Peckham to
about 32,221, that of St. George's to about 22,202; and the
* Such as the influx into the parish of a disproportionately large number
of yomg newly married persons, attracted hither by the erection of new
houses in new districts.
† Viz. at the annual rate of 2.28 per cent.
‡ In Crease of parish 30.77 per cent. per decenniad, of Dulwich 5.57, of
Camberwell 20.04, of Peckham 44.69, of St. George's 28.29.