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4
PART I.
A. POPULATION.
The resident population of the City of Westminster has been
calculated by the Registrar-General at 179,052 for the year 1903.
This is arrived at by a calculation based on the assumption that the
rate of decrease ascertained at the census taken in 1901 as having taken
place since the census taken in 1891 is still continuing. For districts
in which little change occurs this may be a ready method of arriving
at a fairly reliable estimate, but in Westminster, where improvement
schemes on a large scale are in progress, it is obvious that the risk of
error may be considerable. There are, moreover, a large number of
persons resident in Poor Law establishments "beyond the boundaries of
the City, whose deaths are allocated to the City, hence these people
should be added in as part of the resident population. To counterbalance
this there are many persons in hospitals and hotels in the City
who are only temporary residents, and in order to be exact these should
be excluded.
These alterations affect the various Wards differently, and while
adopting, for the sake of comparison, the population (179,052) as given
by the Registrar-General, I have added paupers to the various Wards
in the proportion in which they were found in the Workhouses and
Infirmaries at the time of the census, and deducted a proportion of the
persons in hospitals and hotels, with the result that the following
figures are arrived at:—
Conduit Ward 5,740
Grosvenor Ward 15,025
Knightsbridge
St. George Ward 15,150
Victoria Ward 39,760
Hamlet of Knightsbridge
Ward 7,558
St. Margaret Ward 13,430
St. John Ward 31,296
St. Anne Ward 11,304
Great Marlborough
Ward 7,386
Pall Mall Ward 3,171
Regent Ward 9,537
Charing Cross Ward 4,387
Covent Garden
Ward 8,864
Strand Ward 6,756