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The population of the Parish, as enumerated in 1881,
was 1(53,151. I had estimated the population in April, 1891,
at 180,150, or an increase of 17,000 in the ten years : the
Registrar-General's estimate was, I believe, as high as
200,000, or an increase of 37,000. The actual increase, as
shown by the official returns, was only 3170—a fall indeed,
following upon increments of 50,000 and 43,000 in the two
preceding decennial periods. The population, according to
the Preliminary Report of the Census, comprised 166,321
persons, in occupation of 22,002 houses (or in the proportion
of 7'56 persons to a house), viz., 118,769 persons in 14,840
houses (=8 to a house) in the Town sub-district, and 47,552
persons in 7162 houses (=6*63 to a house) in the Brompton
sub-district. As the Town sub-district contained a population
of 120,141 in 1881, there was an actual decrease of 1372
persons in the ten years; and as the Brompton sub-district
contained a population of 43,010 in 1881, there was an increase
of 4542 in the ten years. In the Parish as a whole
the males numbered 65,629, the females 100,692. The excess
of females over males, therefore, was 35,063, against 32,399 in
1881. The inhabited houses in the entire parish were 20,171
in 1881, so that there was an increase of 1831 in the ten years.
Between 1861 and 1871 the number of houses increased by
6254, and the population by 50,126, equivalent to 8 01 persons
to each newly inhabited house. Between 1871 and 1881 the
houses increased by 4436, and the population by 43,010,
equivalent to 9 67 persons to each newly inhabited house.
But between 1881 and 1891, although the houses increased by
1831, instead of an increase of 14,666 on the 1861-71 scale,
or of 17,705 on the 1871-81 scale, the increase of population
(3170) was equivalent to 1.73 persons only to each newly inhabited
house. In the ten years, 40,811 births and 27,254
deaths were registered : the natural increase of population,
therefore, i.e., the excess of births over deaths, was 13,557.
It would thus appear that there must have been a nett loss
by emigration of no fewer than 10,387 persons, against a gain