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ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF
"Equalisation Act" being the higher; but it was on the smaller
figure that death and other rates as published by the Registrar
General were calculated, hence these appeared greater than they
actually were. My own estimate of the population worked out
about 150 more than the Registrar-General's higher figure, so
that there was some discrepancy between the statistics. The
Census taken in 1896, shows that my figures and his higher
estimate were more nearly accurate than those upon which he
calculated the mortality rates. The alteration also in the number
of persons per inhabited house would probably be sufficient to
remedy the slight difference in the Registrar-General's Equalisation
figure.*
The population of Registration London is given as 4,411,271;
at the Census of 1891 it stood at 4,211,743, and shows an
increase therefore of 199,528, but is 14,463 less than the estimate
which was in use by the Registrar-General, based upon the
enumerations of 1881 and 1891.
I am indebted to the Medical Officer for the Administrative
County for the loan of copies of the Registrar's Summaries, showing
the numbers resident in the District on the 29th March, 1896;
to Mr. J. H. Roach, the Master of the Strand Union Workhouse,
Edmonton; and to Mr. William Lee, Master of the Westminster
Union Workhouse, Poland Street; for particulars of the inmates
belonging to the several parishes in this District, resident in these
institutions on the night of the Census.
* The manner in which the population, under the "Equalisation Act," is
estimated is a matter more for the consideration of the Guardians, than of this
Board, but it may be noted that during a census the number of houses in blocks
of Artizans' Dwellings, and "Mansions'' in flats, are not reckoned singly, but in
groups, the front door being the regulating factor; whereas in the return made
in intercensal years a different standard is taken.