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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 34,136 for the middle of the year 1897.
The number of occupied houses in the Parish in the middle of
1897 amounted to about 5,600, and the average number of occupants
to each house in the Parish is six; allowing one individual for each
of the 115 empty houses (on account of care-takers and their
families) the population, estimated in this way, would be about
33,715. This latter computation is likely to be the more correct,
and it is, therefore, the one selected in this Eeport 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
12,500, and in the Southern Division 21,215.
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 362, as against 410 in the preceding
year, and 366 in 1895.
Number of People to the acre.—The area of the Parish amounts
to 639 acres, and this, divided among the parishioners, represents
52.7 people to the acre, as against 59.8 in London generally.
The area of the Northern Division amounts to 440 acres, and
the estimate is only 28.4 people to the acre.