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estimate shows that it accords substantially with that
derived from the Census returns of 1891, and partly
because the recent Census, when we are presented with full
details, will probably materially modify the estimate of
inmates to houses on which my last year's calculations were
based:—
Table XVI.—Populations of Camberwell and tts Sub-Districts.
Parish.
Dulwich.
Cambervvell.
Peckham
St.
George's.
As enumerated in 1881
186,593
5,590
59,104
71,089
50,810
As enumerated in 1891
235,312
6,809
81,654
83,483
63,366
As calculated for middle
of 1890 from the Census
returns of 1881
300,934
7,540
106,527
115,287
73,982
As calculated for middle of
1890 from the Census
returns of l891
231.658
6,718
79,963
82,553
62,424
Although since 1881, as compared with the immediately
preceding ten years, there has been a large falling off in
the growth of the population, there has, nevertheless, been
a very substantial actual increase. Thus, for the whole
Parish, there was an increase of 48,719, as against an
increase in the earlier period of 75,287; but, with this
exception, the increase was considerably larger than has
occurred in any previous decennium. In Dulwich there
was an increase of 1,219, as compared with an increase of
1,551 in the previous decennium; in Camberwell, an increase
of 22,550, as compared with an increase of 27,853; in
Peckham,an increase of 12,394, as compared with an increase
of 28,930; and in St. George's, an increase of 12,556, as