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St Giles (Camberwell) 1871

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

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Table: The following table shows, in its successive columns, the acreage, the population, the houses, and the population per acre and per house, of the entire parish and of each of its sub-districts:—

The following table shows, in its successive columns, the acreage, the population, the houses, and the population per acre and per house, of the entire parish and of each of its sub-districts:—

AcresPopulation.HousesPopulation per acre.Population per Inhabited house.
MFM & FInhabited.EmptyBuilding.
Dulwich142315682473404164649232.86.24
Camberwell133913673175783125149984756823.36.25
Peckham1146195242263542159701689721536.96.09
St. George's43416049178023385150954995378.06.64
Total4342508146048811130217755192035925.66.27

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Besides the more obvious facts which the above
figures disclose, there are one or two points arising
out of them to which I may direct your attention.
The first of these is the general and great preponderance
of females; thus, in Dulwich there were 905
more females than males; in Camberwell, 3905; in
Peckham, 3111; in St. George's, 1753; and in the
entire parish, 9674. But the proportions of the sexes
differed considerably in the different districts; thus,
to every hundred males there were—in Dulwich,
157.7 females; in Camberwell, 128.5: in Peckham,
115.9; in St. George's, 110.9: and in the whole
parish, 119.0. It cannot be doubted, I think, that
this excess of females over males must be
due in large measure to the general employment of
female servants, and that their relatively large