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1871, a number far below what it certainly is at the
present time, we shall find, on comparing the actual
number of deaths occurring in the year with it, that
the mortuary rate is exceedingly high, and one which
would seemingly imply extreme unhealthiness. But
how can we determine what the increase of population
has been in Camberwell and in each of its sub-districts
during the 8 years which have elapsed from the
Census-taking of 1871 to the middle of the year
1879 ? The most obvious and simplest plan, and that
usually adopted, is to assume, for an augmenting
population, that the population has been increasing
uniformly since the last Census at the same annual
rate at which it was ascertained to have increased
during the ten years which intervened between the
last two Census-takings. Now between 1861 and
1871 the population of Camberwell increased at the
annual rate of 45 per 1000 ; but this increase was
made up of an annual increase : for Dulwich of 89 per
1000; for Camberwell proper of 39 per 1000; for
Peckham of 41 per 1000; and for St. George's of 52
per 1000. And if these several rates of increase have
been maintained down to the middle of 1879 the
population of the entire Parish would have amounted
at that time to about 161,463, including a population
of 8,168 in Dulwich, one of 42,885 in Camberwell,