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This expectation is quite arbitrary, and
may probably be upset at the next census,
since an estimation of this character in small
communities like ours is less trustworthy
than in larger ones.
These figures, I repeat, refer to the Night
population only.
The Day-census which was taken by the
Corporation of London in May, 1891, at its
own expense, proved that 1,186,000 persons
and 92,000 vehicles entered and left the City
on the day the counting was made.
The population of the City as ascertained
by the Day-census was found to be in 1866170,133,
in 1881-261,061, and in 1891301,384,
shewing an increase between 1866
and 1881 of 90,928, and between 1881 and
1891 of 40,323, so that if this progressive
augmentation has been maintained since 1891,
a Day-census at June, 1894, would have shewn
a population of about 315,400.