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accordance with the regulations of the Local Government Board,
deals with the year 1897, which year, for registration purposes, ended
on 1st January, 1898.
VITAL STATISTICS.
The populations of the two parishes, estimated to the middle of
the year 1897, on the theory of the basis of the rate of change between
the censuses of 1891 and 1896 being maintained, are—
Registration
Poplar. Bromley.
London.
(a) 4,463,169 58,126 69,759
being 59.8 inhabitants per acre in Registration London, 49.9 per acre in
Poplar and 114.7 in Bromley, and these estimated populations are the
pures used in calculating the various rates in the present report.
In calculating the birth and marriage rates, also the general death
and zymotic detail rates, as well as using the above-mentioned
estimated populations, the same rates have been worked out with
populations estimated in another manner, in order to be as accurate
as possible when dealing with important rates which can only be
arrived at for the year 1897 by dealing with estimated populations.
The census, i.e. the enumerated population, was taken in March
1896, and it was found that the estimated population of the Parish
of Poplar had been slightly under-estimated, and that of Bromley
considerably over-estimated. The Registrar General makes up his
returns to the middle of the year, and always estimates populations
to the same period. The second manner in which the populations
for the parishes of Poplar and Bromley have been estimated for
purposes as stated above is as follows The unknown figures relating
to emigration and imigration concerning the parishes have been
eleminated.