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City of London 1898
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1898
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POPULATION.
The first Imperial Quinquennial Census was
taken in the City of London on the night of
the 29th March, 1896, under the provisions of
the London (Equalization of Rates) Act, 1894,
57 and 58 Vic., cap. 53, sec. 3.
In the Returns prepared by the RegistrarGeneral,
dated 13th August, 1896, presented to
Parliament, the population on the night of the
enumeration was found to be 31,711, whilst in
the previous decennial Imperial Census of 1891
it was 38,320, showing a decrease of 6,609
persons in the five years (1891-6).
Assuming that the annual rate of decrease
between 1896 and 1898 corresponded to the
rate of decrease in the decennial period 1891 and
1896, the estimated population of the City at
the end of June, 1898, would be 29,121.
City Population.
| Census of 1861 | 112,063 |
| ,, 1871 | 75,983 |
| ,, 1881 | 51,405 |
| ,, 1891 | 38,320 |
| „ 1896 | 31,711 |