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TABLE I.
Year.
Population.
Increase per
cent. during
previous
intercensal
period.
Persons
to
the Acre.
Rateable
Value.
1851 Census
11,166
-
7.0
47,422
1861 „
15,539
30.9
9.1
55,916
1871 „
23,878
50.5
13.7
96,661
1881 „
42,900
83.5
25.2
149,899
1891 „
91,640
113.6
53.8
385,407
1896 „
113,781
24.4
66.8
560,965
1901 „
137,289
20.6
80.6
677,332
1911 „
153,284
11.7
90.1
902,640
1921 „
157,944
3.0
92.9
959,235
Population of Registration Sub-Districts. — The
following table gives the population of the three Registration
Sub-districts:—
Census of
1901.
Census of
1911.
Census of
1921.
North-East District
46,405
48,797
50,538
(Barons Court, Lillie and Walham Wards and Western Fever Hospital).
North-West District
45,178
55,738
56,732
(Margravine and Munster Wards and Fulham Infirmary and Workhouse).
South District
45,706
48,749
50.674
(Hurlingham, Sands End and Town Wards).
137,289
153,284
157,944
During the intercensal period, the natural increase
of the population by the excess of births over civilian
deaths was 16,957, so the net loss by migration and
deaths in His Majesty's forces was 12,303.
The population as enumerated at the census corresponds
closely with the estimated population in 1920, viz.
158,621, which was based on the rationing returns
furnished by the Ministry of Food. It was thought that,
judging from the complaints of overcrowding, the population
was then under-estimated, as there were at the
Census of 1911 2,112 empty tenements in the borough