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and the demolition of old, the formtion of new streets and the
establishment of populous districts, have so far altered the
conditions existing when that return was made as to render it and
all deductions from it, unless with considerable correction and
modification unreliable for statistical purposes. The figures before
you, therefore, should be regarded in the light only of an approach
to the existing condition which must remain a subject of
speculation until the next official enumeration is completed.
The distribution of the population in the eight registration subdistricts
has not been subject during the course of the current
year to any unusual distributing influence. But a study of the
returns discovers a steady growth. The several districts display a
considerable divergence one from the other in regard to their
capacity for increase exemplified in their birth and mortality rates.
Kennington Second, a district characterised by a low rate
augmented its population by the birth of one thousand and thirty
children, an increase of 26^2 for every thousand persons living,
whilst Lambeth Church 2nd, recording sixteen hundred births,
shows an increase of 34.4 per 1,000. On the other hand Waterloo
2nd, in which district a lying-in hospital is situated, a disturbing
influence which it is necessary to eliminate from the calculation,
has a birth rate of 50.5 per 1,000, and Norwood a rate of 30.4.
The death rate shows a decline of 1 per 1,000 on the preceding
year. After collecting and adding to the death return, the number
of parishioners who died in out-lying institutions, and separating
from it the number of those who, although not being parishioners
died in the hospitals of Lambeth, the death rate for the year 1889
is calculated at 17.5 per 1,000.
In the districts, the rate of mortality is at its highest in Waterloo
1st being 19-5 per 1,000 living persons. It is at its lowest in
Norwood, being 14.8. The district, characterised by The highest
death rate, is also remarkable for the density of its population.
Waterloo 1st boasts a population of 253.3 persons per acre.