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POPULATION.
Six years having elapsed since the taking of the
complete census in 1891, the estimates of the population
have become somewhat untrustworthy. The
enumeration of 1896 was from its incomplete
character liable to serious error, chiefly in the
direction of excess, and is therefore of little value as a
check to the estimates. It has, however, been thought
desirable to assume that the changes in the populations
of the two sub-districts, as determined by the
enumeration, have remained constant. On this basis
the population of the Parish at the middle of the
year, has been estimated at 126,253 inhabitants, of
whom 92,788 were residents in North Paddington
(St. Mary's Sub-District), and 33,465 in South Paddington
(St. John's Sub-District).* The numbers of
individuals estimated living in each sex-age-group
have been tabulated in Table 1.
The natural increment of the population of the
Parish during 1897, amounted to 1,210 individuals,
as compared with 1,126 in 1896 and 880 in 1895.
During the decennium, 1887-96, the natural increment
averaged 855 individuals a year.
*The boundary line between the two sub-districts begins, at the eastern
end of the Parish, in the middle of Praed Street, at its junction with
Edgware Road, is continued down the centre of the Canal Basin to Bishop's
Road Bridge, and passes thence down the middle of Bishop's Road and
Westbourne Grove to the western limit of the Parish.