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showing a decrease of 4,332, or ten per cent., in ten years, a decrease-rate larger
than that shown in any other London area, except the City of London, where the
rate of decrease was 19.8 per cent.
During the same period the numerical loss in the County of London was
87,520, equal to 2 per cent.
The decline in population in Holbom is a natural corollary of increasing
congestion at the centre created by industry and commerce which drives resident
population farther outwards. The Census report points out, however, that the
rate of loss disclosed at the last Census was less than that in the previous decade.
Resident Population.
The resident population, on which birth and death rates are calculated, is
obtained by eliminating from the enumerated population all persons whose "usual
residence" as returned at the Census was recognised by the local registrars as
being outside the boundaries of the area of enumeration, and redistributing such
visitors by (a) crediting areas containing boarding schools with numbers
corresponding to their absent boarders; and (b) distributing the balance of visitors
over all areas in proportion to their population. This principle, now introduced
into the Census system, produces a lower resident population figure in areas like
Holborn where there are many hotels and boarding houses regularly occupied by
visitors; actually 25.9 per cent, of the enumerated population in Holborn was in
such dwellings. The effect of the revision is to reduce an "enumerated"
population in Holborn of 38,860 to a "resident" population, estimated by the
Registrar-General at the middle of 1932, to be 36,440.