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PART I
A. Population.
The resident population of the City of Westminster has been
calculated by the Registrar.General at 173,905 for the year 1906.
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. 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 5,550 St. Anne Ward 10,900
Grosvenor Ward 14,800 Great Marlborough
Knightsbridge Ward 6,950
St. George Ward 14,700 Pall Mall Ward 2,960
Victoria Ward 39,300 Eegent Ward 9,340
Hamlet of Knights. Charing Cross Ward 4,210
bridge Ward 7,520 Covent Garden
St. Margaret Ward 13,100 Ward 8,430
St. John Ward 29,800 Strand Ward 6,340