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some of the poorest parts of the parish, and on that
account is likely to have a comparatively high deathrate,
it is not inferior to St.George's in these respects,
and little, if at all, below the Camberwell sub-district.
The errors on which these discrepancies depend
are no doubt contained in the estimates of
population.
That they are wrong is rendered almost absolutely
certain by the results of deducing the amount
of the population from the birth-rate. No doubt the
birth-rate, like the death-rate, is liable to fluctuation
yet on the whole the birth-rate is more constant than
the death-rate, and there is reason to believe that it
does not vary largely from year to year for the
different districts of the Parish, and for the Parish as
a whole. At the Census of 1871 the birth-rate of
Dulwich was 22 per 1000; that of Camberwell, 35
per 1000; and that of Peckham and St. George's
36.5 per 1000. On the assumption that these figures
still represent the respective birth-rates of the different
sub-districts, we may estimate that the 82 births in
Dulwich in 1879 occurred in a population of 3727;
that the 1733 births in Camberwell occurred in a
population of 49,514; that the 2617 births in Peckham
occurred in a population of 71,698 ; that the