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rights, the history and the power of England, had,
'within and without its walls,' on the Census night,
only 74,732 people; down to which number it had
dwindled since 1861, when the numbers enumerated
were 112,063. The decrease in ten years is 37,331
or nearly one out of three of the original number.
Its streets empty and almost silent during the night,
present a very different aspect during the day, and
the Corporation of the City deemed it right, in
order to determine the numbers, to take a daycensus
in 1866, with the following results: they
found that, in addition to the ordinary sleeping
population, the mercantile men engaged in the city
daily amounted to 170,133. The numbers have
probably increased since that date, for the City was
never before so full as it is now in the day-time."
In point of fact, the day population of the city cannot
be less than a quarter of a million; for, to say
nothing of the 509,611 persons who at the daycensus
of 1866 were found in the city as clients and
customers, there were 170,133 merchants, shopmen,
clerks, and others, engaged in the city warehouses
and shops. These, with the 74,732 who sleep in
the City at night, make a total of 244,865 persons
as the resident day population of the City. Distributed
among the 9,321 inhabited houses of the City,
they amount to rather more than 26 persons to a
house, or to more than 338 persons to an acre.