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and amounted to 85,475 in April, 1896. The
increase must be attributed to the erection of
several large blocks of Artizan's dwellings in
Bermondsey New Road.
The Leather Market District, in which those
buildings are situated, has 1,727 more inhabitants,
while the St. James' district has 934 less population.
Our natural increase of population, or the excess of
births over deaths, was 1,330; but we are not
entitled to regard that as a real or permanent
addition. The estimated population is 85,508.
BIRTHS.
The total number of births registered in the
Parish was 3,203, being 9 less than in the previous
year, and 24 more than the decennial average. In
the Leather Market District there were 1,301 births,
and in St. James', 1,902. The number of children
born in the first quarter of the year was 783; in
the second quarter, 767; in the third quarter, 783;
and in the last quarter, 870.
The annual birth rate per thousand of the
estimated population in the Leather Market District
was 40.2; in St. James' District, 35.7; and for the
whole Parish, 37.5.