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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
This estimated population, although in all probability fairly
correct for the whole Borough is not so when each individual subdistrict
is taken. In some parts of the Borough, notably in Clapham
South Ward and in Southfield Ward, Wandsworth, the increase has
been very great, and this increase will be seen in the next Table.
The estimated population in this Table is obtained by dividing
the number of inhabitants at the Census 1901 by the number of
assessments in that year, thus obtaining a factor representing the
number of persons per assessment, by which the number of assessments
in the middle of 1905 is multiplied.
This factor does not vary much at the different deceunia and
consequently the estimated population of each sub-district is nearer
the truth than the estimated population obtained by the method
adopted by the Registrar General.

The corrected population as above, viz., 285,910, is slightly above
the estimate made by the London County Council for the Equalisation
of Rates Act, viz., 285,433.
The corrected population in the above Table is used to calculate
the rates in this Report.
The difference between the corrected and uncorrected population
is made up by the population in the Public Institutions of the
Borough, which are as follows :—