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This estimate does not include the Finsbury residents detained in
the following outlying institutions : the Holborn Union Workhouse,
Shepherdess Walk (919), the Workhouse Infirmary, Archway
Road (338), the Holborn Union Workhouse, Mitcham (528), and
the Holborn Schools, Mitcham (344), giving a total of 2,127.
Adding these to 86,130, the estimate of the Registrar-General,
gives a corrected population ox 88,257 for the whole Borough.
The various rates in the present report are calculated on the
estimates of the Registrar-General.
The reasons lor adopting this method were given in the annual
report for 1910.
The intra-mural population in 1912 is less by 1,436 than the
population for the preceding year.
This gradual depopulation of the borough has now been in
progress or some considerable time, and is due to the fact that
the borough is becoming more and more a business and manufacturing
centre and less and less residential.
Inhabited houses are being demolished and are being converted
into factories, workshops and warehouses.