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26
BATTERSEA WEST.
The decennial census having been completed, one is
able to present this report with a satisfactory knowledge
that the statistics referred to in it present an accuracy which
it has been impossible to give during the past few years.
It has revealed the fact that the official population has
been for years far below that which actually existed,
and that the numbers on which the death rate, &c.,
have been calculated have given two or three per 1,000
more than the district deserved. This has been referred
to in the previous reports.
The increase in the population has been extraordinarily
large ; in 1871 it was 26,572; in 1881 it was
50,703; giving an increase of 24,131. This is due, not
merely to natural increase, but in a much larger degree
to immigration, as the following table, compiled from
facts under my own observation for the past ten years,
will show:—