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PART I.
A. Population.
The resident population of the City of Westminster has been
calculated by the Registrar-General at 175,606 for the year 1905.
At the census, 1901, the number was 183,011. 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. From the remarkable
increase in the number of births recorded there is strong probability
that in certain Wards an increase, rather than a decrease, in population
has taken place. 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.
For the purpose of obtaining approximately exact figures for the
Wards, 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 5,600
Grosvenor Ward 14,900
Knightsbridge
St. George Ward 14,800
Victoria Ward 39,500
Hamlet of Knightsbridge
Ward 7,560
St. Margaret Ward 13,200
St. John Ward 30,496
St. Anne Ward 11,000
Great Marlborough
Ward 7,000
Pall Mall Ward 3,000
Regent Ward 9,400
Charing Cross Ward 4,250
Covent Garden
Ward 8,500
Strand Ward 6,400