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like buildings known as "model dwellings." In the
meanwhile the late occupants of the destroyed houses,
have either left the neighbourhood or, if this has not
been convenient, have crowded up closer the already
densely-packed dwellings of the district. Now, in
forming an estimate of population this exodus must be
taken into account.
At the date of the last census in March, 1871, the
population of Bethnal Green was 120,104. From that
date to Midsummer, 1878, there havebeen 37,241 births
and 21,383 deaths; the excess of the births over the
deaths represents the natural increaso of the population,
and amounts to 15,858 ; this, added to the census population
in 1871, brings up the number to 135,962, and
shews what our population would have been had there
been no emigration from the district. But as we know
this has taken place to a very considerable extent, and
has not been counterbalanced by a corresponding immigration,
this number would represent our population
at a very much higher figure than is actually the case .
we are therefore obliged to resort to an expedient, and
estimate our population. Now, the method given for
performing this operation, in that most useful book,
HarVs Manual of Public Ilealth, is the following: "This,"
the estimated population, "is approximately found
by the method pursued by the Registrar-General—
that is to say, by adding to the population as enumerated
at the last census a tenth of the difference between
that number and the number obtained at the previous