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ber of the population among whom they were distributed?
Unfortunately we cannot tell this. Camberwell
has been growing very rapidly, and not only
rapidly but irregularly, and consequently the mode of
calculation which the Registrar-General adopts, and
has hitherto been found pretty correct for London
generally, fails us in Camberwell, or rather misleads
us. If the Parish and its constituent districts have all
been increasing since 1861 at the same rate of increase
which they severalty exhibited between 1851 and 1861,
the population of Dulwich should, in the middle of
1868, have been about 1792, that of Camberwell about
24399, that of Peckham about 36770, that of St.
George's about 24355, and that of the whole
Parish about 86843; * and the death-rates calculated
upon these numbers would be for Dulwich †
1.897 per cent., for Camberwell 2.368, for
Peckham 2 537, for St. George's 3.04, and for the
whole Parish 2.584; results, which, if correct, would
be for Peckham, and especially for St. George's, exceedingly
unsatisfactory. But they are not correct;
* There is a discrepancy here between the population calculated for the subdistricts
and that calculated for the entire Parish, dependent on the fact that
some of the preliminary calculations have not been carried to a sufficient number
of decimal places ; but it is quite unimportant
† The death-rates for the districts have been calculated, not from the numbers
of deaths returned from each district, but from the corrected numbers for each
district, obtained by dividing the deaths in the Workhouse and Asylums fairly
between them; that is, on a population for Dulwich of 34, for Camberwell of
578, for Peckham of and for St. George's of 741.