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From the above tables we learn that the population on
the 4th of April, 1881, was 162,924, the decennial increase
being 42,625 or 35.4 per cent. This is less than half the
percentage increase (73) in the decennium 1861-71, but the
numerical increase is less by only 8,400. Of this increase
16,445, or 38.6 per cent. is natural, representing the excess
of births over deaths; the remainder, 36,180 (61.4 per cent.) representing
the balance of immigration over emigration. The 162,924
persons comprised: Males, 65,276 and females, 97,648; the excess
of females, which had been 22,345 in 1871, having increased in
ten years to 32,372, and being 20,211 in the Town sub-district,
and 12,161 in Brompton. The population of the Town sub-district
increased from 91,645 to 120,127, or by 31 per cent.; and that of
Brompton from 28,654 to 42,797, or by nearly 50 per cent. The
number of inhabited houses, 15,712, in 1871, according to the
Census returns, increased to 20,103 in 1881, or 28 per cent. The
average number of persons to a house, which was nearly 7.7 in 1871
had increased to 8.1 in 1881. The proportions to a house were in the
Town sub-district 8.6, and in Brompton, 7. In the Ward of
St. John and St. James', the increase per house was from 8.1
(nearly) to a little over 9.1 persons. These figures prove that
I did not err in supposing that the northern portion of the parish
was becoming overcrowded (vide page ). The density of population
in 1871 was 55 to an acre; 61 in the Town sub-district, and