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The population consists of 150,711 males and 147,889
females; an excess of 2.822 males. Under 10 years of age
there are 215 more females than males, but over 10 years of
age there are 3,037 more males than females.
There are 113,855 males over 10 years of age, 96,650 being
engaged in some occupation, and 17,205 being retired or
unoccupied.
There are 110,818 females over 10 years of age, 40,446
being engaged in some occupation, 12,087 of them being
married or widows.
Table A shows that there has been an increase in the
population in all the parishes with the exception of the Old
Artillery Ground, Ratcliff, St. Botolph Without and the Tower
of London. In all these there has been a slight decrease.
Wapping has been practically stationary.
The most marked increase has been in St. George's-in-theEast.
Though there has been an increase in the four Sanitary
Districts as a whole, there has not been the same increase
as in the previous intercensal periods. The effect of that has
been that the estimated population for the last four years
has been incorrect. For the purpose of calculating the birth
and death rates, the population at the two previous censuses
are taken, and for every succeeding year after the census, the
population is estimated by logarithms, taking for granted
the rate of increase will be the same as in the intercensal
period. The population in Limehouse was over-estimated by
2,963; in Mile End by 6,956; and in Whitechapel by 6,366.
In St. George's it was under-estimated by 3,090.