Vision of Ireland | 1891 Census: Population tables 2

1891 Census of England and Wales, Area, Houses and Population: Registration Areas and Sanitary Districts, Table 2 : " Area and Population in Registration Districts and Sub-Districts and in Civil Parishes".

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Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Area in Statute Acres [1]	Houses						Population
		Inhabited				Uninhabited				Building				Persons	Males	Females
		1881 [2]	1881 [3]	1881 [4]	1891 [5]	1891 [6]	1891 [7]	1881 [8]	1891 [9]	1881 [10]	1891 [11]	1881 [12]	1891 [13]
West Ham RegD/PLU Total	18,807	31,211	3,428	1,652	59,447	3,458	732	200,958	365,134	100,208	180,357	100,750	184,777
Stratford SubD	1,100	6,037	357	76	6,617	258	48	38,606	42,983	19,480	21,857	19,126	21,126
Plaistow SubD	1,242	3,645	700	218	9,298	479	132	23,807	58,030	11,906	28,810	11,901	29,220
Canning Town SubD	1,558	4,813	436	168	7,715	432	56	38,240	54,750	20,605	28,716	17,635	26,034
Forest Gate SubD	806	4,672	440	298	8,436	489	98	28,300	49,140	13,419	22,958	14,881	26,182
East Ham SubD	3,266	1,669	261	63	5,493	325	161	10,706	32,713	5,929	16,966	4,777	15,747
Leyton SubD	4,334	5,226	664	359	11,937	764	90	32,430	70,188	15,374	33,402	17,056	36,786
Walthamstow SubD	6,501	5,149	570	470	9,951	711	147	28,869	57,330	13,495	27,648	15,374	29,682

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Notes:

The following notes to the table appeared in the original report.

1	The Registration Districts of this Division are co-extensive with Poor Law Unions, except ...
2	Where the name of a Registration County in which a Parish is situated differs from that of the Administrative County to which it belongs, the name of the latter is added in italics. [further information on special cases in the specific division.]
3	(W) or (W.S.) denotes that a Workhouse or Workhouse School belonging to the District is situated within the limits of the Parish; (w) or (w.s.) that one of these institutions not belonging to the District is situated therein. A statement of the number of persons enumerated in Public Institutions in each District will be found in Table 8.
4	The places named in footnotes as being included in Civil Parishes are Hamlets, Villages, etc, or localities having no defined boundaries.
5	Under the Divided Parishes Acts of 1876, 1879 and 1882 numerous detached parts of Civil Parishes have been amalgamated with other Civil Parishes, and a statement of such transferences is given in Table 14.
6	Revised areas of Civil Parishes and parts of Parishes have been furnished by the Ordnance Survey Department.
7	The areas marked thus (w) either include water or relate to Parishes to which a portion of the tidal water or foreshore of contiguous rivers or creeks has been allotted. Such tidal water or foreshore is, however, not included in the areas. For details see Table 11.
8	Persons who, on the night of 5th April, 1891, were on board barges or boats employed in inland navigation, and those who were on board sea-going and coastal vessels in harbours, rivers and creeks, are included in the general population. For details see Table 9.

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