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stationary or even recede. I propose to multiply the population year by
year, by 1.0147, the figure adopted by the Registrar-General for the
Metropolis at large.
It is unnecessary to remind you that the parish has grown very
unequally in its different parts. The parish may be divided into two
districts, the old and the new. The first portion embracing the registration
sub-districts of Holywell and St. Leonard, have actually suffered a
diminution of inhabitants, thus throwing all the gain of 20,000 persons
into the four remaining districts, of Hoxton New Town, Hoxton Old
Town, and Ilaggerstone West and East. In order to show more clearly
the march of the population in the different divisions, I place before you

It is thus seen that whilst during the last 20 years the number of
inhabitants in Holywell and St. Leonard's has undergone little change,
Hoxton New Town has increased during the last ten years, about 1J per
cent., Haggerstone West about 1^ per cent., Hoxton Old Town nearly 50
per cent., and Ilaggerstone East more than 50 per cent.
Whence is this increase of population derived? If we could find a
community—self-sufficing, never sending any of its members abroad into
the world, and admitting no new-comers within its pale, then we could
measure the increase or loss of population by simply striking a balance