Population and Dwellings., TABLE VIII.—Summaries at Successive Census Periods.

		1841.	1847.	1851.	1857.	1861.	1870.	1881.	1891.
POPULATION AND DWELLINGS.
Population (Numerical)—
Persons	No.	50,216	70,164	70,130	81,492	89,977	99,328	115,705	146,667
Males	No.	34,504	47,828	43,127	45,916	49,593	52,853	61,162	77,560
Females	No.	15,712	22,336	25,482	34,886	40,384	46,475	54,543	69,107
Population (Centesimal)—
Persons	per cent.	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00
Males	per cent.	68.70	68.17	61.50	56.35	55.12	53.21	52.86	52.88
Females	per cent.	31.30	31.83	38.50	43.65	44.88	46.79	47.14	47.12
Females to 100 Males		45.54	46.70	59.06	75.98	81.43	84.73	89.18	89.12
Persons to the square mile	No.	1.92	2.68	2.68	3.11	3.43	3.79	4.39	5.60
Persons to the inhabited dwelling	No.	7.32	7.37	6.25	5.71	5.12	5.50	5.26	5.23
Percentage Increase or Decrease since last Census—*
Decennial Rate			63.46	-0.15	26.64	25.91	11.76	14.78	26.73
Annual Rate			5.45	-0.00	2.50	2.44	1.13	1.38	2.36
Dwellings—
Inhabited dwellings :
No.		6,859	9,519	11,245	14,273	17,566	18,048	21,858	28,024
To the square mile		0.26	0.36	0.43	0.55	0.67	0.69	0.83	1.07
Having 1 room	per cent.							6.61	8.38
More than 1 room	per cent.							93.39	91.62
Under £20 rental	per cent.								65.51
£20 and over £20 rental	per cent.								34.49