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from which it appears that there was a considerable increase
between 1851 and 1861, a slight increase between
1861 and 1871, and that between 1871 and 1881 the population
was practically stationary.
According to the census figures, there was a sudden and
remarkable decrease in the population between 1881 and
1891, amounting to more than a fifth of the population of
Mayfair, and to more than an eighth of the population of
Belgravia. I have given in previous reports my reasons
for believing that the enumeration of the population of
this Parish in 1891 was erroneous and useless for statistical
purposes. I have, therefore, since 1881, considered the
population to be stationary, and have used for my calculations
the census population of that year.
Now that it is necessary to estimate the population for
the middle of 1892, taking into account the census population
of 1891, I have, in order to eliminate the census
error as far as possible, made my calculation on the
apparent increase between 1851 and 1891, which gives the
following results:—
Mayfair 23,487
Belgravia 55,162
Whole Parish 78,649
and using these figures, although the total is, I have little
doubt, some thousands below the real population, the
calculated death-rates in the Parish are as follows:—
Mayfair
Belgravia
Whole Parish
11.62
19.25
16.97
per 1,000
per annum.