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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 34,699 for the middle of the year 1898.
The number of occupied houses in the Parish in the middle of
1898 amounted to about 5,625, and the number of occupants to
each house in the Parish averages a little over six; allowing one
individual for each of the 115 empty houses (on account of caretakers
and their families) the population, estimated in this way,
would be about 34,200. 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 12,580, and in the Southern Division 21,620.
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 373, as against 362 in the preceding
year, and 410 in 1896.
Number of People to the acre.—The area of the Parish amounts
to 639 acres, and this, divided among the parishioners, represents
53.5 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 28.6 people to the acre.