Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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TABLE B.
STATISTICS RELATING TO METROPOLITAN BOROUGHS.
POPULATION, According to Census.
The figures in ordinary type are approximate only the population of the transferred from one parish to another under the London Government Act
of 1899 not being taken into account.
1801 | 1811 | 1821 | 1831 | 1841 | 1851 | 1861 | 1871 | 1881 | 1891 | 1896 | 1901 | |
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City of London | 128129 | 120343 | 124137 | 122491 | 133663 | 127819 | 112013 | 78844 | 50569 | 37636 | 31083 | 26923 |
City of Westminster | 160759 | 168657 | 189543 | 209229 | 292473 | 244531 | 257232 | 248714 | 229784 | 198871 | 195465 | 183011 |
Battersea | a3365 | a4409 | 4764 | 5311 | 6617 | 10560 | 19600 | 54016 | 107262 | 150558 | 165115 | 168909 |
Bermondsey | 46281 | 49397 | 57148 | 62637 | 83701 | 85308 | 101913 | 122398 | 134632 | 136660 | 137585 | 130730 |
Bethnal Green | 22310 | 33619 | 45676 | 62018 | 90193 | 105101 | 120104 | 126961 | 129132 | 129162 | 129680 | |
Camberwell | 7059 | 11309 | 17876 | 28231 | 93868 | 54667 | 71488 | 111306 | 186593 | 235344 | 253076 | 259339 |
Chelsea | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 59881 | 67717 | 73079 | 74466 | 75196 | 73842 |
70738 | ... | |||||||||||
Deptford | 11349 | 12748 | 14481 | 15314 | 8664 | 24899 | 37834 | 53714 | 76752 | 101286 | 107273 | 110388 |
Finsbury | 55515 | 68811 | 86223 | 100521 | 121938 | 125360 | 129031 | 124766 | 119382 | 111225 | 109961 | 101463 |
Fulham | 4428 | 5903 | 6492 | 7317 | 9319 | 11886 | 15539 | 23350 | 42900 | 113781 | 137289 | |
Greenvich | 22077 | 25303 | 28748 | 33374 | 93300 | 47377 | 57417 | 56450 | 65411 | 78167 | 84429 | 95780 |
Hackney | 12730 | 16771 | 22494 | 31047 | 73771 | 53589 | 76687 | 115110 | 163681 | 198606 | 213044 | 219272 |
Hammersmith | 5600 | 7393 | 8809 | 10222 | 31453 | 17760 | 24519 | 42691 | 71939 | 104199 | 112239 | |
Hampstead | 4343 | 5483 | 7263 | 8588 | 01093 | 11986 | 10906 | 32281 | 45452 | 68416 | 75449 | 81942 |
Holborn (d) | 67103 | 80642 | 88172 | 90670 | 39767 | 95726 | 94074 | 93513 | 78668 | 70938 | 67425 | 59425 |
Islington | 10212 | 15065 | 22417 | 37316 | 55690 | 155341 | 213778 | 282865 | 319143 | 336764 | 334981 | |
Kensington (e) | 8556 | 10886 | 14428 | 20902 | 62334 | 44053 | 70108 | 120299 | 163151 | 166308 | 170465 | 176628 |
Lambeth | 27985 | 41644 | 57638 | 87856 | 151888 | 139325 | 162044 | 208342 | 253699 | 275203 | 295033 | 301895 |
Lewisham | 4383 | 7137 | 8922 | 10767 | 41636 | 18616 | 28970 | 47018 | 67500 | 88653 | 99962 | 127495 |
Paddington | 1881 | 4609 | 6476 | 14540 | 52173 | 46305 | 75784 | 96813 | 107058 | 117846 | 124506 | 143976 |
Poplar | 8278 | 13548 | 18932 | 25066 | 13122 | 47162 | 79196 | 116376 | 156510 | 166748 | 169267 | 168822 |
St. Marylebone | 63982 | 75624 | 96040 | 122206 | 183164 | 157696 | 161680 | 159254 | 154910 | 142404 | 141188 | 133301 |
St. Pancras | 31779 | 46333 | 71838 | 103548 | 192763 | 166956 | 198788 | 221465 | 236363 | 234379 | 240764 | 235317 |
Shoreditch | 34766 | 43930 | 52966 | 68564 | 109257 | 129364 | 127164 | 126591 | 124009 | 122358 | 118668 | |
Southwark | 62669 | 78219 | 99562 | 116006 | 143225 | 152371 | 173900 | 175049 | 195164 | 202693 | 206582 | 206160 |
282676 | ||||||||||||
Stoke Newington | 1984 | 2758 | 3360 | 4192 | 528522 | 6134 | 11297 | 17452 | 37561 | 47828 | 51659 | 51247 |
Wandsworth | 14283 | 17968 | 22726 | 27779 | 323238 | 40204 | 50803 | 71044 | 103172 | 156942 | 187264 | 232024 |
Woolwich | 12619 | 20983 | 21277 | 22411 | 03787 | 43177 | 69064 | 67880 | 74963 | 98966 | 106477 | 117178 |
959310 | 1139355 | 1379543 | 1655582 | 1297277 | 2363341 | 2808494 | 3261396 | 3830297 | 4228317 | 4429529 | 4536524 |
Chelsea.-The figures in italics include Kensal Town st district, transferred to Paddington and Kensington in 1900.
In 17 Boroughs the population has increased since 1896, and in 13 it has decreased.