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Table X .—Method of Obtaining Population Corrections. (Illustrated 
for the class entering in 1879-80.) 
Year. 
Census. 
Increase 
over 1880. 
Per cent, 
of 
increase.1 
Increments. i 
Population 
corrections 
Grades. 
Actual. 
Estimated. 
1880.... 
491,516 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
First. 
1881.... 
7.0 
7.0 
Second. 
1882.... 
560,693 
69,177 
14.0 
14.0 
7.0 
14.0 
Third. 
1883.... 
7.0 
21.0 
Fourth 
1884.... 
629,985 
138,469 
28.1 
14.1 
7.1 
28.1 
Fifth. 
1885.... 
7.3 
35.4 
Sixth. 
1886.... 
703,817 
212,301 
43.1 
15.0 
7.7 
43.1 
Seventh. 
1887.... 
9.0 
52.1 
Eighth. 
1888.... 
802,651 
311,135 
63.3 
20.2 
11.2 
63.3 
Ninth. 
1889.... 
11.5 
74.8 
Tenth. 
1890.... 
1,208,669 
717,153 
145.9 
82.6 
(59.1)’ 
145.9 
Eleventh. 
12.0 
1891.... 
(21.3)’ 
179.7 
Twelfth. 
12.5 
1892.. . 
1,438,010 
946,494 
192.7 
46.8 
13.0 
192.7 
1893.... 
13.0 
205.7 
1894.... 
1,567,727 
1,076,034 
218.9 
26.2 
13.2 
218.9 
i Computed on population of 1880. 
’The real increments very large, on account of annexed districts in 1890 and 1891; the 
per cents, given in parenthesis would have been normal increments, as is evident from 
the rest. 
