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The estimated number of inhabited houses to the middle
of the year 1897 is 40,525, and the rateable value of the
Parish on April 11th, 1897, was £1,692,816, an increase of
£12,533 on the previous year, as the following Table
shews:—
Year. Rateable Value.*
1897 £1,692,816
1887 1,490,933
1888 1,491,518
1889 1,491,851
1890 1,498,535
1891 1,526,176
1892 1,540,047
1893 1,551,023
1894 1,562,868
1895 1,575,253
1896 1,680,283
Yearly average for 10 years, 1887-1896, £1,540,848 14 0
The Registrar-General returns the estimated population
of London for the middle of the year 1897 as 4,463,169,
consisting of 2,109,588 males and 2,353,581 females, and
states that there were registered during the year 41,223
marriages, 133,618 births (68,004 males and 65,614 females),
and 80,943 deaths (42,027 males and 38,916 females).
There were registered, too, 11,525 deaths from the seven
chief zymotic diseases. The excess of registered births
over deaths, i.e., the natural increment, is 52,675, and the
estimated increase of population is 41,406.
* These rateable values are the figures as settled by the Assessment
Committee, and do ' not include, therefore, any new properties that may
come into existence between the meeting of such Committee and the
following financial year.