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POPULATION.
The Inhabitants of. Paddington, according to
the enumeration made in April, 1896, numbered
124,506, the estimated population,based on the Census
of 1891, being at that date 124,450, or 56 below the
ascertained total. The inhabitants of the SubDistrict
of St Mary, more commonly known as North
Paddington, were found to number at the enumeration,
90,996, and those of the Sub-District of St.
John, or South Paddington, 33,510. The estimated
numbers, founded on the last Census Returns, were
92,449 and 32,001 respectively. During the ten
years 1881 to 1891, the population of North
Paddington increased at an average rate of 1,443
persons per annum, whilst that of South Paddington
decreased at a rate of 364. In the live years between
the Census of 1891 and the enumeration of 1896,
the increase in North Paddington was at the rate of
1,367 persons per annum, and the decrease in South
Paddington, at the rate of 35 persons. These facts
are set out in tabular form below.