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variations from that uniformity as we choose to make subdivisions
of that area and population, and these variations
become wider and and wider as we increase the number,
and therefore diminish the size, of our sub-divisions. We
know, further, that the birth-rate among the well-to-do
classes is lower than that among the poor, and that on that
account (if on no other) the population of Dulwich has been
under-estimated in the above calculation, and the population
of St. George's and of Peckham has been over-estimated.
Making a rough guess, I should be inclined to think that
the population of the parish, and that of each of the subdistricts
(excepting Dulwich) lie about half way between the
*Since the above calculations were made, and the above paragraphs
were written, Mr. Stevens, clerk to the guardians, has published a
summary of the more important results which the late census has
revealed with regard to the Parish of Camberwell. I have added
this summary to my report, as the 3rd table in the appendix. And I
have thought it desirable here, in a foot note, to bring together for
comparison the results of my own calculations as given in the text,
and those of the census. It must not be forgotten however that the
census-returns are for the current year, and will therefore be especially
available for the purposes of my next annual report; and that my own
calculations, being for the middle of 1870, apply to a period of nine
months earlier date.