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To estimate the population of No. 4 Ward
I have ascertained the number of houses at the
present time existing in that Ward, and compared
this with the number of houses returned for Peckham
at the Census of 1881. I have also ascertained
the proportion of inmates to houses in Peckham
and in St. George's. And mainly from these data
I have come to the conclusion that the population
of No. 4 Ward in 1881 was about 37,000, or as
nearly as possible one-fifth of the total population
of the Parish. In estimating the population of the
Ward for the several years previous to 1881, I have
assumed that its rate of increase has been equal
to that of St. George's, which it resembles in many
important respects, and not to that of Peckham,
as a whole, whose increase, though collectively
much greater than that of St. George's, has taken
place chiefly in the neighbourhood of Nunhead,
and not in No. 4 Ward (Table XIII). It will be
seen that 1 have taken pains not to under-estimate
the population of No. 4 Ward, and thus not to
exaggerate its mortuary rate.
Table XII comprises an exact list of all the
small pox cases which were reported to the Sanitary
department, month by month, for the same period