APPENDIX No. 28.
Reading edition
Houses and Population in Superintendent Registrar’s District, on March 31st, 1851, and on April 8th, 1861.
CHELSEA.
Inhabited Houses. Population Enumerated. Increase or Decrease in the Number of Persons between 1851 and 1861. Excess of Registered Births over Registered Deaths in ten years.
1851. 1861. 1851. 1861. Increase. Decrease. 1851–61.
7591 8318 56,538 63,423 6885 — 4302
Some other Statistics of Chelsea.
Date of Census. POPULATION. Inhabited Houses By how many Families. Uninhabited Houses. Persons employed in Agriculture. Persons employed in Trade. Persons not employed in Agriculture or Trade.
Males. Females Total.
1801. 4651 6953 11604 1637 2746 128 183 1069 10,352
Families chiefly employed in Agriculture. Families chiefly employed in Trade, Manufacturers, and Handicraft. Other Families not employed in the two preceding Classes. Houses Buildings.
1811. 7737 10525 18262 2430 3968 107 168 2217 1583 207
1821. 11623 15237 26860 3602 5829 138 275 2979 2575 146
1831. 14536 17835 32371 4635 8032 349 87 3985 3960 44
1841. 17663 22516 40179 5648 No Return. 178 Returns not continued in these Forms. 100
1851. 25475 31063 56538 7591 No Returns for Parishes. 264 Ditto 98