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POPULATION.
Working on the assumption that the rates of
change observed in the populations of the two subdistricts,
during the five years 1891-96, continued
unvaried, an estimated population of 127,678 for
the whole Parish at the middle of the year 1898
was arrived at, as compared with a total of 117,846 at
the census of 1891, and of 124,506 at the enumeration
of 1896. The population (1898) of North
Paddington (St. Mary's Registration Sub-District)
was estimated at 94,248 persons, and that of South
Paddington (St. John's Registration Sub-District) at
33,430. Owing to the long interval which has
elapsed since the last census, and to the great changes
which are taking place in the manner of housing the
inhabitants of the district, these estimates must be
regarded as provisional only, and subject to revision
when the results of the next census are available.
The natural increment of the population, i.e.,
the excess of births over deaths, amounted to 935
individuals during 1898, as compared with 1,210 in
1897, 1,126 in 1896, and 880 in 1895. The annual
average for the preceding decennium was 978. These
figures take no account of immigration or emigration,
and are naturally dependent on the annual fluctuations
in the natality and mortality of the Parish.
The estimates of the numbers living at the various
ages mentioned in Table 1 have been obtained by use
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