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VITAL STATISTICS.
Area and Population.— The area of the County Borough of
West Ham is 4,706 acres. Latitude 51'° 30'—51° 33' N. Longitude
0- 1'W.—0o3'E.
The Census population in 1891 was 204,902. The inhabited
houses numbered 32,066. The number of persons per house was 6.3,
and the number of persons per acre was 43.5.
At the middle of the year 1900 the Registrar-General estimated
the population at 314,000, while his estimate for the middle of 1901
was 329,377—this estimate being based upon the ratio of increase
between the years 1881 and 1891.
At the Census taken on the 1st April, 1901, however, the
enumerated population of the Borough proved to be only 267,308, an
increase of 62,405 on the population of 1891, but 62,069 less than
the Registrar-General's estimate of the population for the middle
of 1901. I have not been able to examine the particulars of other
districts, but it is very doubtful if any show so great a discrepancy
between estimate and record as West Ham, a discrepancy due entirely
to the assumption that the very rapid increase between the years
1881 and 1891 would be maintained during the succeeding ten years.