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Areas.
Population on Areas.
1899.
1900.
1901.
1902.
Aylesbury Place 511 480 470 464
Garden Row 407 407 407 344
Roby Street 218 218 218 44
Baltic Street 351 351 351 285
Honduras Street .. 217 217 217 215
Total 1704 1673 1663 1352
In point of fact, this table does not correctly represent the move—
ments and fluctuations of population on the areas, for the reason
that changes have been taking place month by month since the
areas were condemned.
In some cases houses once empty have become again tenanted,
and houses which before were crowded have during the last three
years become overcrowded. Consequently it is not possible to
present an absolutely accurate figure respecting the displacements.
On page 454 of the Minutes I have stated an estimate of the approxi—
mate displacement of population owing to closure of houses as 533,
leaving the remaining population at 1171. But in the above Table
it will be seen that the total population now resident on the five
areas is 1352. This includes 25 persons temporarily absent on the
Aylesbury Place area ; rooms, that is to say, which were empty at
the time of enumeration have been accounted for in accordance
with the numbers of the last tenants. From this total of 1352 it
would therefore appear that the total displacement was 352 (1704
minus 352 = 1352). But this is a fallacy, for though some have
departed owing to the closure of houses, others have crowded into
the remaining houses, with the result that the total population
has not been a correct indication of the displaced persons. Accord—
ingly I have made a careful enumeration of the persons actually