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This estimate does not include the Finsbury residents detained in
the following outlying institutions: the Holborn Union Workhouse,
Shepherdess Walk (943), the Workhouse Infirmary, Archway
Road (305), the Holborn Union Workhouse, Mitcham (481), and
the Holborn Schools, Mitcham (327), giving a total of 2,056.
Adding these to 84,679, the estimate of the Registrar-General,
gives a corrected population of 86,735 for the whole Borough.
The day population is estimated to be 180,000.
The various rates in the present report are calculated on the
estimates of the Registrar-General.
The intra-mural population in 1913 is less by 1,451 than the
population for the preceding year. The gradual depopulation of
the borough has now been in progress for some considerable time,
and is due to the fact that inhabited houses are being demolished
and are being converted into factories, workshops and warehouses.
CENSUS RETURNS, 1911.—The following details are extracted
from, or based upon, the report of the recent census.
The highest average numbers of persons per inhabited house in
London were: Holborn 13.15, and Finsbury 11.52 persons.
The Finsbury census population distributed according to age
and sex was as follows:—