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Sanitary Report, 1893.
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POPULATION.
The population at the middle of the year is
estimated at 69,159. In making this estimate the
same plan of calculating from the number of houses
has been adhered to as on former occasions.
Taking the number of houses which have been
added to the rate book, and making the same allowance
for empties—6.9 per cent.—which was found
at the time of the census, then multiplying by the
average number of people in each house, a fairly
correct estimate can be obtained, the result is also
corroborated by the birth rate for the year. The
average increase each year from 1881 to 1891
was 3,365, and that is about the rate of increase
that has been maintained. I explained in my
report for 1891 how I considered too high an
estimate would be obtained by logarithms; Dr.
Sykes in his report to the County Council, calculating
in that way, gives 67,682 as the estimated
population of Willesden at the middle of 1892, but
adopts for his general calculations the estimates
given by the Medical Officers of Health in their
various reports; my estimate for that year was
65,744.
According to a return received from Mr. Seabrook,
the Clerk to the Board of Guardians, there
were 178 inmates of the Workhouse belonging to
Willesden who should be added to the estimate—
64 males, 94 females, and 20 children; this makes
the estimated population 69,337.