Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1878 — Population Returns. [ARTICLE]

Population Returns.

The Registrar General, in making his annual return for 1877, gave an estimate of the population of the several counties (the “registration counties”) of England and Wales in the middle of that year, assuming the annual rate of increase since the last census to be the same as that enumeration showed to have been the average rate for the then preceding ten years. He estimates that Lancashire—premier county in population—had 3,117,049 inhabitants in the middle of the year 1877, and that Middlesex had 2,767,148, and Yorkshire 2,736,078, of which last number 2,089,076 were in the West Riding. These three .counties together have more than a third of the whole population of England and Wales. —London Times.