[182] See the Report of Select Committee of House of Lords on Hospitals, P.P. 1892, vol. xiii. [183] See Report of Royal Commissioners on the Amalgamation of the City and County of London, 1894. [184] See Hansard, 1899, vol. lxvii. p. 354. [185] In his last report he recorded the death of J. Munro, who had been Inspector of Nuisances for thirty-three years, so for that long period they had worked together. CHAPTER VII 1901-1906 ONCE more the census placed on record the actual population of the great metropolis, no longer divided, so far as local government was concerned, into parishes and districts, but now into a smaller number of municipal boroughs. The figures of this census are the last available for reliable deductions as to numerous important matters forming part of that comprehensive subject, the sanitary evolution of London. The enumerated population of London had reached the great number of 4,536,541, and showed an increase of 308,224 during the ten years 1891 to 1901. The rate of increase, however, continued to show a decline, having fallen from 10·4 to 7·3 per cent. during the intercensal period. The same movement of the population noted in previous censuses was recorded in this one. In the City of London and six of the central metropolitan boroughs the enumerated population showed an actual decline of over 67,000 in the ten years, notwithstanding that the recorded excess of births over deaths in that period amounted approximately to 70,000. In all the other boroughs there had been increases. In the Eastern group the increases had been very small, with the exception of Stepney, where, owing to the immigration of aliens, the population had increased 13,484. In the Northern group the greatest increase had been in Hackney (19,666). In the Western group Fulham showed the highest increase, namely, 45,500; whilst on the south side of the river, Wandsworth had increased 76,500, and several others showed large increases. Outside the boundaries of the county the "outer ring" had attained to a population of 2,044,553 persons--an increase of 639,000. If the metropolis and this "outer ring" were regarded as one city--and in many matters it is hard to consider them apart--the total population in 1901 was 6,581,372. The information as to the birthplaces of the people showed that of the 4,536,541 persons, 3,016,580 were natives of London. The proportion of natives of London had increased; the proportion from the rest of the United Kingdom had decreased; whilst there had been an increase of 40,000 foreigners, the number having considerably more than doubled since 1881. Of every 1,000 inhabitants, 668 were born in London, and 332 elsewhere, as against 653 and 347 respectively in 1891.