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Density.
According to the supplement to the Fifty-fifth Annual
Report of the Registrar-General, the density of population
in five decennia in St. Giles' District was:—

Census 1896.
In March last the first Quinquennial Census was taken
of the population in each of the civil parishes in the
Administrative County of London, so that the Local
Government Board might be in a position to inform the
London County Council of the exact number of persons
inhabiting each sanitary district, in order that the sixpenny
rate levied under the Equalisation of Rates Act, 1894,
might be apportioned upon the basis of population in each
district.
According to the official return of that Census published
by the Registrar-General, the total population of the
administrative County of London was 4,411,710, an increase
of 199,967 since 1891.
This return shows that the ratio of increase of population
within Registration or Inner London has been smaller
than the rate that prevailed during the ten years 1881-91.
The actual decline in population in Central London, owing
to the substitution of business premises for dwelling houses
and the migration of the residents to suburban neighbourhoods,
has long been in progress at an increasing rate.