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per annum, while that of the Norwood district increased
at the rate of 6½ per cent., per annum ; whereby the number
of its inhabitants has become almost doubled during the ten
years, or has increased from 3,977 in 1851, to 7,462 in 1861.
The two districts in which the rate of increase has
decreased most strikingly are the 1st Kennington, and the 2nd
Waterloo Road districts. In the 1841—51 period the population
of the 1st Kennington district increased at the rate of
more than 3½ per cent per annum, whilst in the 1851—61 period,
it increased at the rate of only ¾ of a per cent. per annum.
The population of the Waterloo Road 2nd district, which
amounted to 18,340 persons in 1851, had only increased to
18,640 in 1861; or at the rate of 3/20ths of a per cent. per
annum, instead of at the rate of 12/20 of a per cent. per annum,
as in the 1841—51 period. Altogether in the 1851—61
period, as in the 1841—51 period, the rate of increase in
the population of Lambeth was less than that of London, and
considerably less than that of the southern districts of London.
Nevertheless Lambeth continues to hold, as regards its population,
a very important position among metropolitan districts
and parishes. With the exception of Kensington, which has
7,473 acres, and 186,000 inhabitants, it is not exceeded by any
metropolitan district or parish in the two items of extent and
population. Its 162,000 inhabitants are spread over an area
4,015 acres, being at the rate of 40 persons to an acre;
whereas in Kensington there are only 25 persons to an acre.