CHAPTER II. AREA OF MANCHESTER-HOUSES-RATEABLE PROPERTY -POPULATION-ANALYSIS OF POPULATION. VERY elaborate document, drawn up under the auspices of the Manchester Statistical Society, having been published-containing all the information of the government report of the census of 1841, as regards this town, and entering minutely into several important collateral details-we have availed ourselves of it, and beg to present the following extracts. ☆ AREA OF THE FOLLOWING TOWNSHIPS (STATUTE ACRES.) 20 VALUE OF RATEABLE PROPERTY. At the period the last census was taken, the DWELLING HOUSES In the Manchester Union were.............. .35,046, of which 2742 were empty. Salford Union were.. ...14,237, Chorlton-upon-Medlock Union were 19,329, 1358 " The Police Rate collected in Manchester for 1840-41 amounted to £23,408; in Salford, to £6,118; and in Chorlton-upon Medlock, for 1839-40, to £3,591. THE FOLLOWING TABLE SHOWS THE INCREASE OF THE AMOUNT OF POLICE RATE LEVIED AND COLLECTED IN MANCHESTER :* Assessments Gross Amount of Rate of Rate. Collected. "The above account of the rate collected for 1840-41 is made up to the 24th June, 1841, when the arrears outstanding were transferred to the supplementary collector; but the amount collected of the rates for the other years includes all the sums which have been collected up to that date, either by the regular or supplementary collector." The sums are quoted in round numbers. AGGREGATE AMOUNT OF THE ESTIMATED ANNUAL VALUE OF RATEABLE PROPERTY IN THE SEVERAL TOWNSHIPS COMPOSING THE MUNICIPAL BOROUGH OF MANCHESTER.t tFrom" Proceedings of the Manchester Town Council," September 1st, 1841. ANALYSIS OF POPULATION. 23 The number of persons born in Ireland, Scotland, and in Foreign parts, now settled in Manchester, is as follows : ANALYSIS OF AGE OF POPULATION. The Tables from which we extract, contain very full details of the number of Inhabitants of all ages, from 1 to 100. We cannot give more than the following very brief abridgement : IN THE THREE UNIONS, The Total number of both sexes in their 1st year was. 19,882 12,769 621 1 Dr. Black, an eminent Physician in Manchester, at a Conversazione held in the Royal Victoria Gallery, in the early part of 1842, read a paper which contained an interesting analysis of the census of 1841, as far as it regards Manchester. The Doctor stated, that the data from which he had drawn his comparisons were the report of the Registrar-General of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, for the year ending June, 1840, and the official returns of the population on the 6th June last year, in the Manchester, Salford, and Chorlton Unions, as published in the Manchester Guardian; together with an abstract of the general census, published in the Companion to the British Almanack of this year. then continued,-" As the census of the population has He |