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City of London 1895
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1895
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TO THE HONOURABLE
THE COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my Annual Report
for the year 1895.
In a work of this nature there must necessarily
be some repetition of the figures and data
upon which the various calculations are made
in order to compare one year with another.
The population of the City as ascertained
by the Day-census was found to be in 1866—
170,133, in 1881—261,061, and in 1891—
301,384, 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, 1895, would have shewn
a population of about 319,970.
The Day-census which was taken by the
Corporation of London in May, 1891, at its
own expense, proved that 1,186,000 persons