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BATTERSEA EAST.
The official determination of the real number of
persons residing in the sub-district of Eastern Battersea—
the result of the recent census enumeration—conveys to
us the fact that at that date, April 4th, 1881, therein
existed 50,196 persons. This number exceeds, although
but slightly, the estimated mean population used in the
fortnightly returns, but is much in excess of the official
mean population of the Registrar General, which would
have credited the sub-district for the year 1880 with
but 12,925 inhabitants, or thereabouts, and which was,
as has frequently been stated in these reports, not at
all a satisfactory mode of computation as far as the
population of this rapidly increasing district is concerned.
The mean population for the year 1880 will be the
probable number of persons that resided in the subdistrict
of Eastern Battersea on the middle day of that
year, which is arrived at by deducting three-fourths of
one year's ascertained increase of population in the
decade 1871-81. The actual increase of population in
the ten years was 29,188, and the subtraction of 3/40 will
give a mean population for 1880 of 51,285. The
estimated mean population derived from the ascertained
number of births, and which has always been used in
these calculations, and at which I had arrived some
months before the census was taken, was 53,738, thus,
after a period of ten years, being only 517 wide of the