LONDON'S POPULATION.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4378, 16 September 1896, Page 5

LONDON'S POPULATION.

The result of the recent census in London is announced. The rate of increase during the past five years has not been quite so great as had been supposed. The population of registration London at the recent census enumeration (says the Registrar-General) was 4,411,271, and the population of London in the middle of this year, estimated on the basis of the rate of increase between the censuses of 1891 and 1896, is 4,421,492, which is 14,463 less than the estimate hitherto in use, based on the enumerations of 1881 and 1891. The census was held on the night of Sunday, i March 39, and between that date and the end of June the increase is now estimated at 10,221. Looked at in another way, the population of London in the middle of this year, on the basis of the rate of .increase between the censuses of 18S1 and 1891, was recently estimated at 4,435,955 ; now on the I basis of the increase between the censuses | of, 189 L and 1896 the population at the. middle of this year is estimated at only 4,421,492, the increase being less by 14,463 than, .was supposed till the result of bhe recent enumeration became known. An examination of the returns shows that the population north and south of the Thames was divided as under on the 29th of March :— North of the Thames 2,768,475 .South of the Thame3 1.642,796! 4,411,271 South London includes all that part of London south of the Thames under the jurisdiction of the County Council. ' The census taken last March, being under the provisions of the Equalisation of Rates Act, 1894, was confined to the " Administrative County of London." " Greater London," however, includes all the districts under the jurisdiction of the metropolitan police. This outer ring includes the whole of the County of Middlesex and part of the 1 counties of Kent, Surrey, Essex, and Herts, practically all bhe suburbs of London. The' population of London taken in this larger sense is : — ' , Inner London ... ... ... 4,421,492 Outer London ... 1,766,421 6,177,913 This is the estimated population at the middle of this year. At the military tournament in London Mr, Barrett, the gunnery instructor, of /H.M.S. 1 Excellent, performed a feat which is withobt parallel. Two sailors having lighted the^r clay pipes, he put a bar of lead across from 1 stem to stem, and then with a swift stroke of his sword severed the bar of lead without any damage to the pipes, and without interfering with the regularity of the' " puffs" of the bluejackets. Needless to say, the feat was received with " thunders " of applause. London and Liverpool are both at> the level of the sea. ' The British Empire doubles its population in Europe every fifty -five years j in the olonicß eyery twenty.five years.