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for the year 1896, which was taken to enable certain taxation arrangements
to be adequately dealt with, showed that the estimated population
of the parish of Poplar was slightly under-estimated, and that of Bromley
considerably over-estimated. This census also showed that the
estimated population of Registration London at the beginning of the
year 1896 in use by the Registrar General, was 14,463 more than it
should be if worked out upon the figures of the quinquennial census
for 1896 and the census for 1891. The Registrar General based his
figures upon the enumerations of the years 1881 and 1891. The
Poplar and Bromley figures were also based upon the enumerations
of the figures of the censuses for those years, and estimated as if the
population increased in the same ratio per million of the metropolitan
population for the year under observation.
The following figures were the estimated populations to the middle
of the year 1896 based upon the censuses of 1881 and 1891, before
the census of 1896 was obtained:—
Registration Poplar. Bromley.
London.
4,435,955 57,782 73,295
but after the quinquennial census of 1896 the populations estimated
to the middle of the year, on the theory of the basis of the rate of
change between the censuses of 1891 and 1896 being maintained,
are—
Registration Poplar. Bromley.
London.
4,421,492* 57,829 69,803
being 59.2 inhabitants per acre in Registration London, 49.6 per
acre in Poplar, and 114.8 in Bromley, and these estimated populations
are the figures used in calculating the various rates in the present
report. The rates for past years have been calculated upon amended
estimated populations, and, with the exception of that for the year
* Afterwards amended to 4,421,955.