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To the Vestry of the parish of St. Mary,
Battersea.
Gentlemen,
A recapitulation of the main facts of the Census enumeration
of 1896 is necessary in order that the following statistics
may be seen to be correctly based.
The Census taken on March 29th, 1896, shewed that the
increase of population in the preceding five years had not quite
kept pace with that which prevailed during the last few intercensal
periods; in fact, since 1871-81 the rate of increase has
uniformly decreased, the probable reason of which is that nearly
all the available building land in the parish has been covered.
The following are the particulars of the last three census
enumerations, the number of inhabited houses, of persons, and
of inhabitants per house being given for the several wards into
which the parish is at present divided.
Census 1881.
Census 1891.
Census 1896.
Inhabited
Houses.
Population.
No. of
Inhabitants
per House.
Inhabited
Houses.
Population.
No. of
Inhabitants
per House.
Inhabited
Houses.
Population
No. of
Inhabitants
per House.
Ward 1 2,665 23,667 8.9 3,327 27,899 8.3 3,442 29,178 8.4
„ 2 5,120 37,011 7.2 6,748 50,087 7.4 6,846 52,653 7.7
„ 3 4,536 31,652 6.9 5,457 40,217 7.3 5,705 43,119 7.5
„ 4 2,284 14,932 6.5 5,247 32,255 6.1 6,428 40,165 6.2
Totals 14,605 107,262 7.3 20,779 150,458 7.2 22,421 165,115 7.4