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The density of population in 1S96, was 94 persons per
acre; for Registration London it was 59 to an acre.
I have based the calculations in the following Reports
upon the population of all ages as usually estimated to the
middle of the year 1896. This is 11,673.
The number of inhabited houses in April, 1891—according
to the census return—was 2,083, an increase of 36 per cent.
in ten years; and the average number of persons to a house
was 6.1.
1,054 persons were living in 460 tenements of only one
room, and 3,207 were living in 794 two-room tenements.
Rather more than one-third of the whole population were in
tenements with one or two rooms. More than half of the
persons in these tenements were subject to the conditions
expressed in the Census Report by the word "overcrowding,"
that is, more than two to a room
As many as 124 notices were served during the year for
the abatement of overcrowding.
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered for the whole District
(which includes the united Parish of St, Olave and St.
Thomas and that of St. John), for the 53 weeks ending
January 2nd, 1897, was 430. Of this total, 209 were male