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7
POPULATION.
The population of the Parish in 1881 was 22,781, and in 1891 it
had grown to 30,936 According to the result of the Poll-census of
the Metropolis, which was taken at the end of the first quarter of
1896 for the purpose of the Equalisation of Rates Act, the population
of the Parish was then 33,485. The population, calculated logarithmically,
from the increase between the years 1891 and 1896, amounts
to 35,718 for the middle of the year 1900.
Now that a fresh census of our population will shortly be taken
we shall know, in a few months' time, the precise number of the
population of the new Borough, and it will be interesting to note how
near this estimate of the population comes to the actual truth.
The number of occupied houses in the Parish in April, 1900,
amounted to 5,477, and the number of occupants to each house in the
Parish averages nearly 6.4; allowing one individual for each of the
160 empty houses (on account of caretakers and their families) the
population, estimated in this way would be about 35,200. This
latter computation is likely to be the more correct, and it is, therefore,
the one selected in this Report for the purpose of drawing out the
mortality-rates of the Parish.
The estimated population for each of the Sub-Districts is as
follows:
In the Northern Division (North of Church Street) it is approximately
12,900, and in the Southern Division 22,300.
I believe this estimation, which I have taken some trouble to
arrive at, is sufficiently close to serve as a just basis for computing
the death-rates of the two Divisions.
The natural increase of population by excess of births over deaths
during the year amounted to 338, as against 342 in the preceding
year, and 373 in 1898.