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The population of the Parish was enumerated on April 1st,
1881, with the following results:—
Sub-District. Population.
Hanover Square 16,858
Mayfair 13,481
Belgravia 59,171
Total for the Parish 89,510
This is lower by 248 for the whole Parish than it was in
1871, when the Census gave the following results:—
Sub-District. Population.
Hanover Square 18,700
Mayfair 13,020
Belgravia 58,038
Total for the Parish 89,758
Thus the fact that the population of the Parish has remained
practically stationary is due to the increase in Belgravia
and Mayfair being counterbalanced by a considerable
diminution in the Hanover Square Sub-District. This diminution
is, no doubt, chiefly due to the demolishing of small
houses and the erection of workshops on their sites.
As I have calculated all the death-rates in previous years
on the assumption that the population was increasing at the
moderate rate that prevailed between 1851 and 1861, the
death-rates given in previous years have been slightly too
low; whereas the death-rates given by the Registrar General
for London, during the last ten years, have been all too high,
because the population has increased at a greater rate than
was allowed for.
The population of the Parish is to the enumerated population
of London as 1 to 42 3/5.