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The assessments of April, 1881, and April, 1880, are
given in the following table:—

It cannot be pretended that the estimates of populations
from the assessments are trustworthy; partly because we
do not really know the proportions of inmates to houses
in the different districts; partly because, in all the districts,
and probably in varying proportions, there are unoccupied
houses. The discrepancy due to the present inclusion of
factories in the enumeration of the whole parish only, and
their former distribution in the several districts is of little
importance. But although, on the whole, I do not regard
the last estimates as trustworthy, I believe they are far
nearer the truth than those given in Table IV., and more
generally near the mark than those given in the first two
horizontal lines of Table VI.
During the year, 7,261 children were born in the
parish, of whom 3,691 were boys, and 3,570 were girls; of
these, 90 belonged to Dulwich, 2,286 to Camberwell, 2,641
to Peckham, and 2,244 to St. George's. The total births
were more numerous than they were in 1887 by 129. In
• This number includes 111 assessments of factories which are
not included in the assessments of the districts. In 1881 such
assessments were distributed.