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after a great war, the rate of increase 

 was more than doubled. 



From 1 85 1 to 1891 there was a tendency 

 in these districts to a decrease in population, 

 the rate of decrease, however, being very 

 slight — varying between 0*67 and 0*04 — 

 whilst the absolute loss over the forty 

 years was only 20,000 out of 1,324,528. 



In the last ten years, however — 1891 to 

 1901 — in these 112 areas there has been 

 an increase of 1*9 per cent., and an absolute 

 increase of more than 25,000 This increase 

 has wiped out the losses that had taken 

 place since 1851, and the census of 1901 

 records in these districts actually the 

 highest population of any census since 

 1 80 1. Not only so, but the increase since 

 1 801 is nearly 43 per cent. ; and absolutely 

 the population in these districts rose from 

 932,000 to 1,330.319- 



I have dwelt on this point at sorne 



