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of tlie city amounted to 13^668^ and the number of 
inhabited houses to 2^733 ; the population of the 
suburbs, to 4,718, and the inhabited houses to 944. 
Thus the gross population was 18,386 ; and the whole 
number of inhabited houses, 3,677, giving about five 
inhabitants to each house. Here, in ten years, we 
have an increase of 3,658 inhabitants, and 1,026 
houses. 
The census in 1821 gives the numbers of the city 
as 17,839, and the inhabited houses as 3,037. The 
population of the suburbs, as 6,302, and the inhabited 
houses as 1791. The whole population, therefore, 
amounted to 24,141 ; and the whole number of 
inhabited houses to 4,828 ; giving again five persons 
to each house. 
Since 1811, we have an increase of 5,755 persons, 
and 1,151 inhabited houses. The increase, therefore, 
in the number of inhabitants, is greater than during 
the former period ; but the increase of inhabited 
houses is in the ratio of one house to five inha- 
bitants.^ 
I have here traced, from the earliest records extant, 
the population of the city of Worcester, and the 
survey shews that, excepting at one period of the 
1 The proportion of Males to Females in the City and Suburbs of Worcester, 
from 1801 to 1821, dividing the whole period into sections of ten years, was as 
follows :— 
1801, City, 1,000 to 1,311.— In the Suburbs, the Males and Females were equal. 
1811, City, 1,000 to 1,320.— Suburbs, 1,000 to 1,246. 
1821, City, 1,000 to 1,179.— Suburbs, 1,000 to 1,225. 
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