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Dulwich becomes 3,591 instead of 7,500, and its deathrate
16.98 instead of 8.13; the population of Camberwell
becomes 42,371, instead of 41,271, and its
death-rate 18.85, instead of 19.35; the population of
Peckham 67,589 instead of 56,520, and its death-rate
21.76 instead of 26.03; and the population of St.
George's 48,657 instead of 48,995 and its death-rate
20.09 instead of 20.78.
It will be observed that the differences in respect
of population and death-rate above obtained are very
considerable, and that the discrepancies are such as to
throw serious doubt on the trustworthiness of both
methods of calculation adopted.
Still if we consider the matter a little more closely
we shall see the meaning of these discrepancies, and be
able to recognize in which direction the truth lies. Thus
in the first place we shall see that as regards the populations
of the Camberwell sub-district and St. George's,
and their death-rates, the results of both methods of
calculation are in the main identical. This is due,
no doubt, to the fact that these two areas have been,
and are, more uniformly populated than the other
districts of the Parish, and that their growth in
numbers has been (as we know it has been)