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in relation to comparatively thinly-peopled districts like
Dulwich, and to comparatively small areæ such as those
of our other sub-districts. Nevertheless, all these methods
have their value, especially as we recede more and more from
the last Census, as corrective of the results obtained in the
usual way. I may add that the estimate for the whole
Parish as deduced from the assessments, which I published
in my last year's report, was in fact very nearly correct.
Table XVI. gives the populations of Camberwell and of
its sub-districts, as determined at the Census of 1881 and,
liable to correction, at the Census of 1891. It also gives
the populations as estimated for the middle of 1890, on the
assumption that the rates of increase which had prevailed
between 1871 and 1881 had been maintained during the
succeeding years down to 1890 ; and, further, the populations
deduced from the enumerated populations of 1891, by
deducting the increase due to the nine months, from the
middle of the year 1890, to April, 1891, or, in other words,
by 3-40ths of the increase which has taken place between
1881 and 1891. The last series of estimates is no doubt
very near the actual truth both for the whole Parish and
for the several districts. But the series deduced from
former experience is, as will be readily seen, very largely
in excess of the truth. Thus, for Dulwich the figures show
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an over-estimate of about 822 ; for Camberwell, of about
26,564; for Peckham, of about 32,734; for St. George's, of
about 11,558; and for the whole Parish, of about 69,276. I
have not thought it worth while on the present occasion to
make an estimate of the population from the assessments,
partly because houses added to the Parish since April, 1889,
have been very few in number, partly because a tentative