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• Total Population 1801 to 1911: Population grew from 18,816 in 1801 to 125,903 in 1911.
• Age Structure, in 5-year bands, from 1851 to 1911: In 1851, only 3.25 per cent of the population were aged 65 and over, but by 1911 3.99 per cent were.
• Infant Mortality Rate 1871 to 1911: The highest rate recorded was 168.44 infant deaths per thousand live births in 1891, and the lowest was 130.13 in 1911.
• Occupational Structure in 1881:

Here we are presenting statistics for a historical unit, which may have changed its boundaries significantly during the period covered.

Alternative names

The following alternative names exist:

Name	Status	Language	Start	End	Authority
ST OLAVE SOUTHWARK	Official	English		01 Jan 1902	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
ST OLAVE	Preferred	English			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 644.
BERMONDSEY	Alternate	English	1904		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 643.
ST OLAVE BERMONDSEY	Alternate	English	01 Jan 1902		1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
ST OLAVES	Alternate	English			Local Government Board, Poor Law Returns to Parliament from 1871 onwards (HMSO)
ST OLAVE SOUTHWARK	Alternate	English			Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)

Unit associations

We know of no associations with other units.

Unit history

This unit was part of the following units:

Name	Type	Start	End	Authority
LONDON	Poor Law/Registration County	01 Apr 1857		1881 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881'.
LONDON	Administrative County			Ministry of Health, Persons in Receipt of Poor-Law Relief (England and Wales) (H.M.S.O.)
SURREY	Poor Law/Registration County		1889	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 644.

Boundary changes

This unit was affected by the following changes:

Date	Type of change	Other unit involved	Area transferred	Authority
01 Jan 1870	was enlarged by the abolition of	BERMONDSEY RegD/PLPar	Bermondsey became part of St. Olave Southwark	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
01 Jan 1870	was enlarged by the abolition of	ROTHERHITHE RegD/PLPar	Rotherhithe became part of St. Olave Southwark	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)

Lower level units

This unit contained the following units:

Name	Type	Start	End	Authority
BERMONDSEY	Registration sub-District	01 Jan 1870		1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
ROTHERHITHE	Registration sub-District	01 Jan 1870		1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
ST JAMES BERMONDSEY	Registration sub-District	01 Jan 1870	01 Sep 1898	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
ST JOHN HORSLEYDOWN	Registration sub-District		01 Feb 1883	Registrar General, Decennial Supplement (HM Stationery Office)
ST MARY MAGDALEN	Registration sub-District	01 Jan 1870	01 Sep 1894	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
ST OLAVE	Registration sub-District			1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
BERMONDSEY CP/Vest/AP	Parish-level Unit	1869		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 473.
ROTHERHITHE Vest/CP/AP	Parish-level Unit	1869	1899	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 489.
SOUTHWARK ST JOHN HORSLEYDOWN CP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 491.
SOUTHWARK ST OLAVE AP/CP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 491.
SOUTHWARK ST OLAVE AND ST THOMAS CP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 308.
SOUTHWARK ST THOMAS AP/CP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 491.