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The most obvious inference to be derived from the above table
is that there has been generally throughout the Parish (though
less distinctly in Dulwich then elsewhere) a progressive and
marked increase of the population. The significance, I need
scarcely repeat, of the respective mortalities of the sub-districts
depends very largely indeed upon the share these sub-districts
have respectively taken in producing this increase.
During the ten years ending 8th April, 1861, the increase of
the population of Duiwich had been 5.57 per cent.; that of
Camberwell 20.037; that of Peckham 44.69; and that of St.
George's 28.29; and the annual rates of increase of these subdistricts
had been respectively, .54, 1.84, 3.76 and 2,52 per
cent. If the increase has been still progressive at the same rate
the populations of the sub-districts in the middle of 1866 were
of Duiwich 1772, of Camberwell 23437, of Peckham 34153,
and of St. George's 23172; and the death-rates for the year were
respectively 2.03, 2.17, 2.42 and 2.92. But, as I have already
shewn, the above cannot have been the actual rates of increase;
and in two at least of the sub-districts it must have been very
much larger. To judge again from the births, it would appear
that if these have occurred in the general average proportion
to population, the populations of the sub-districts were in the
middle of 1866, as follows:—
Duiwich 1989, Camberwell 25678, Peckham 39723 and St.
George's 32700:
that if they have occurred in that larger proportion to
population deduced for London itself the populations were as
follows:—
Duiwich 1914, Camberwell 24710, Peckham 38225 and St
George's 3M67.