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George's a rise of from 735 to 914. The deaths of
males amounted to 1,668, of females to 1,680.
In order to determine the birth-rate and deathrate,
it is necessary to know not only the numbers of
births and deaths registered during the year, but the
amount of the population resident during the year, or
more accurately, the mean number of the population
or the number estimated for the middle of the year.
But I have shown over and over again that easy as it
may be to estimate the population of London for any
given time between the periods of the Census-taking,
it is extremely difficult to do this for fractional parts
of London, and especially for single outlying parishes,
where the rate of increase is at the same time rapid
and variable, and is not in accordance with the laws
of increase deduced for London as a whole.
Between the last two Censuses, namely, that of
1861 and that of 1871, the population of Dulwich
increased at the rate of 89 per 1,000 per annum ; that
of Camberwell at the rate of 39; that of Peckham at
the rate of 41; that of St. George's at the rate of
52; and that of the whole Parish at the rate of 45.
And on the assumption that these several rates of increase
have been maintained from 1871 to the present time,
the population of Dulwich in the middle of 1878 (or