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TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS
OF THE
VESTRY OF ST. JAMES, WESTMINSTER.
Reverend Sir and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit the following Report
upon the Public Health of the Parish of St. James, Westminster,
for the year 1891.
The figures given by the Census of 1891 show that,
since the Census of 1881, the resident population in St.
James's has fallen from 29,941 to 24,993—a reduction of
nearly 5,000, or one-sixth from the enumeration of 1881,
A corresponding correction will have to be made in the
estimated death-rates which have been calculated for recent
years.
The District of the Parish of St. James's covers an area
of 162 acres, and, with a population of 24,993, now contains
154'22 persons per acre against 184 per acre in 1881. The
mean density of the population in Registration London, by
the Census of 1891, is 56.5 persons per acre.
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