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St Giles (Camberwell) 1874
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]
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REPORT of the FINANCE COMMITTEE as to the
State of the Finance of the Parish.
TABLE I.
PARISH OF CAMBERWELL, SURREY.
Statement of the number of Houses and Persons in the Parish of Ci mberwell, according to the
Census taken on the 3rd April, 1871.
| Number of separate Occupiers. | NUMBER OF HOUSES. | NUMBER OF PERSONs. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inhabited | Uninhabited | Building | Total. | Males. | Females. | Total. | ||
| Summary of Returns of Occupiers, Houses, and Persons in the Parish on the 3rd of April, 1871 | 24,666 | 11,155 | 1,920 | 359 | 20,034 | 50,814 | 60,488 | 111,302 |
| Compared with Census of 1801 | 16,307 | 12,119 | 667 | 194 | 12,980 | 31,639 | 39,850 | 71,489 |
| 8,359 | 5,636 | 1,253 | 165 | 7,054 | 19,175 | 20,638 | 39,813 | |
| Compared with Census of 1851 | 12,227 | 9,417 | 917 | 237 | 10,571 | 23,545 | 31,123 | 54,668 |
| 12,439 | 8,338 | 1,003 | 122 | 9,463 | 27,269 | 29,365 | 56,634 | |
| Returns for the several Registration Districts into which the Parish of Camberwell is divided:— | ||||||||
| (Census of 1871). | ||||||||
| Camberwell District | 6,483 | 4,998 | 475 | 68 | 5,541 | 13,673 | 17,578 | 31,251 |
| Peckham „ | 9,562 | 7,016 | 897 | 215 | 8,128 | 19,524 | 22,635 | 42,159 |
| St. George ,, | 7,911 | 5,095 | 499 | 53 | 5,647 | 16,049 | 17,802 | 33,851 |
| Dulwich „ | 710 | 646 | 49 | 23 | 718 | 1,568 | 2,473 | 4,041 |