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London County Council 1895
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Administrative County of London.
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
1895.
STATISTICS.
Population.
The population of the administrative county of London, estimated to the middle of 1895. was
4,402,284.
The estimates of the population of London for the middle of the years 1891-4, had been made
mainly on the assumption that the increase between the two census years 1881-1891 had been since
maintained.
The population of London was enumerated on the 29th March, 1896, in accordance with the provisions of the Equalisation of Rates Act of 1894, and a more accurate estimate of the population for the middle of each of the years 1891-5 can therefore be made. The following results are thus obtained—
| Population. | ||
|---|---|---|
| County of London. | Administrative County of London. | |
| 1891 | 4,221,517 | 4,241,943 |
| 1892 | 4,260,869 | 4,281,473 |
| 1893 | 4,300,580 | 4,321,370 |
| 1894 | 4,340,663 | 4,361,640 |
| 1895 | 4,381,119 | 4,402,284 |
If the population of the administrative county in 1895 had been estimated on the assumption
that the increase in the period 1881-91 had been maintained, the estimate of population in that year
would have amounted to 4,413,501, or 11,217 in excess of the more accurate estimate obtained by use
of the census population of 1896. There has therefore been in the period 1891-5 a somewhat
diminished increase of population.
The estimated population of each of the 43 sanitary districts comprised in the administrative county is shown in the following table—
| Sanitary district. | Estimated population, 1895. | Sanitary district. | Estimated population. 1895. | Sanitary district. | Estimated population, 1895. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paddington | 123,476 | St. Giles | 38,486 | St. George, Southwark | 60,197 |
| Kensington | 169,832 | St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 13,321 | Newington | 120,150 |
| Hammersmith | 103,125 | Strand | 24,101 | St. Olave, Southwark | 11,883 |
| Fulham | 110,385 | Holborn | 31,398 | Bermondsey | 85,361 |
| Chelsea | 96,594 | Clerkenwell | 66,214 | Rotherhithe | 40,206 |
| St. George, Hanover-square | 79,725 | St. Luke | 41,676 | Lambeth | 291,967 |
| City of London | 32,774 | Battersea | |||
| W estminster | 53,943 | Shoreditch | 122,631 | Wandsworth | 182,595 |
| St. James, "Westminster | 23,361 | Bethnal-green | 129,173 | Camberwell | 250,334 |
| Marylebone | 141,396 | Whitechapel | 78,027 | Greenwich | 174,174 |
| Hampstead | 74,359 | St. George-in-the-East | 47,244 | Lee | 38,204 |
| St. Pancras | 239,790 | Limehouse | 58,166 | Lewisham | 102,691 |
| Islington | 334,042 | Mile-end Old-town | 110,528 | Woolwich | 41,244 |
| Stoke Newington | 33,091 | Poplar | 168,890 | Plumstead | 58,200 |
| Hackney | St. Saviour, Southwark | 25,656 | |||
| 4,402,284 |
The following table shows the increase or decrease of population in the inter-censal period
1891-96 compared with the excess of births over deaths in each sanitary district of the administrative
county during the five years 1891-95; the period of five years to which the births and deaths relate,