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another day census was made, there has been an increase of no
less than 53.4 per cent. The day population of the City of
London is stated to have been in December, 1881, no less than
261,061, against a night population of 50,526, so that more
than 200,000 persons engaged there during the day are nonresident.
On the other hand the population of Hackney is to a
very great extent resident, but supplies a considerable proportion
of the day population of the City.
As regards its population, Hackney stands sixth on the
list amongst Metropolitan parishes and districts, or seventh
if the day population of the City be considered as its true
number. Islington heads the list with 282,628 night
residents, whilst Lambeth had 253,569, St. Pancras, 236,209,
Wandsworth, 210,397, Camberwell, 186,555, Hackney, 186,400,
and Kensington, 162,924. Hackney does not, however, stand
so high as regards rateable value, being tenth in order with the
large assessment of £1,146,290; whilst it stands fourth on the
list as regards inhabited houses with 27,503 against 35,082 in
Lambeth; 34,048 in Islington ; 30,754 in Wandsworth ; 27,306
in Camberwell, and as many as 24,898 in the City of London,
so that there only two persons in each house in the City at night
against 6.78 persons in Hackney.
The population of the Hackney District in 1851 was 58,429,
and in 1881 was returned at 186,400, showing an increase in the
number of our residents of no less than 127,971 persons. By
far the greatest part of this increase has been caused by immigrants,
as the excess of births over deaths, that is to say the
natural increase of the population in the thirty years, was only
44,559 out of the 127,971. In addition to these there have been
very many losses from removals to other districts, so that the
present population has received not only a net increase of
83,412 persons by immigration, but a sufficient number also
to balance the emigration. The statistics of Islington, Kensington,
Camberwell, Wandsworth and other suburban districts
must show a similar state of things, so that the diminution of