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have taken place during the year in the Asylum
District Hospitals.
In order to determine the birth-rates and
death-rates of the Parish and its several sub-divisions,
it is necessary, besides having accurate returns of
births and deaths, to have an estimate of population.
The Census Returns in 1871 showed that the population
of the Parish of Camberwell amounted at that
time to 111,306; of which number 4,04 1 belonged to
Dulwich, 31,251 to Camberwell, 42,159 to Peckham,
and 33,851 to St. George's. It also appears that the
rate of increase of population during the previous 10
years had been for the whole Parish about 45 per
1,000 per annum, for Dulwich, 88, for Camberwell,
39, tor Peckham, 41, and for St. George's, 52. On
the assumption that these rates of progress have been
maintained since 1871, the population of Camberwell
in the middle of 1877 should have been about
147,446, that ot Dulwich about 6,887, that of Camberwell
about 39,719, that of Peckham about 54,280.
and that ot St. George's about 46,560. I cannot
pretend that these estimates are near approximations
to the truth, for reasons which I will consider
presently. But, making this the basis of our calculations,
we arrive at the following results :—