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7
PART I.
A. Population.
The resident population of the City of Westminster has been
calculated by the Registrar-General at 177,321 for the year 1904.
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. 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.
While adopting, for the sake of comparison, the population (177,321)
given by the Registrar-General for the whole City, 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

Added together the Ward figures give a total only slightly above
that of the Registrar-General. For calculations affecting the Wards
B