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same thing, the population existing in the middle of
that year.
It may, perhaps, be recollected, that in reference
to the earlier years subsequent to 1871 I assumed
that the populations of the Parish and of its subdistricts
increased annually at the same rates as
those by which they had been ascertained to have
increased annually during the 10 years previous to
1871; that as time went on I showed clearly that
these rates of increase were not maintained, and
that the results of my calculations more and more
misrepresented not only the population of the entire
Parish, but the relative populousness of its several
districts; and that hence for several years past I
have prepared two different estimates, the one based
as before on the former ascertained rates of increase,
the other deduced from the number of children born
annually. I shall on the present occasion make a
similar series of calculations, and compare the results
of these, with those which I shall deduce from the
facts of the Census of 1881 just published.
1. Between 1861 and 1871 the population of
the Parish of Camberwell increased at the annual
rate of 45 per 1000, which increase was made up of