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1896, cannot be fairly compared with the rates as given in the unamended
annual returns of the Registrar General.

The decrease in the population of Bromley may doubtless be
partially accounted for by the closing of the houses in Ammiel Terrace
and Ammiel Street, and, of the adjoining houses in the High Street,
by the demolition and closing of the houses in the "Anne Street area,"
the demolition of the houses in Duff's Fields, and also on the East
India Dock Road for the "Iron Bridge Improvement." It is possible
that the decrease in the population may be accounted for by the
action of the landlords in increasing the rents (as they threatened to
do on account of the work they have had to carry out since the enforcement
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891), the tenants having
to go to cheaper districts, and the houses being not so overcrowded.
It will be noticed that the estimated population of Bromley to the
middle of the year is lower than the enumerated population at the
quarter of the year: these figures are, without doubt, not actually
correct, as no houses had been closed or pulled down: but they must
remain and form the basis upon which to work out the various rates, in
order to compare the different rates of London and its sanitary areas,
the populations of which are estimated upon the same theory. If the