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It will be observed that considerable activity in the
building trade has occurred in Beddington with 279,
Wallington with 144, Coulsdon with 126, and Mitcham
with 104 new houses.
Throughout the District generally the average
number of persons occupying each house in 1891 was
5.4, but at the census in 1901 it was found to have
fallen to 4.8, but for 1910 it is estimated at 5.0.
The average number of persons to each inhabited
house remains, as a general rule, fairly constant for
each locality, though varying considerably in different
parishes, according to the class of house erected. In
many parts of the district" tenement" houses or houses
let in flats have been built, and these houses have, of
course, a considerably larger number of inmates.
This is particularly the case in Mitcham.

And this has amounted to 12,491 since the census
in 1891.
The "Natural increase" was greatest in Mitcham
with 562, Coulsdon with 134, and Beddington with 79.