It is clearly shown that none of this gain goes to swell the numbers of East London.

Many individual strangers of course go there, but the outflow from East London towards the suburban parts more than compensates the inflow.

By comparing the population of East London in 1901 with that in 1881, it is found that the increase is far less than it ought to be, if we add the excess of births over deaths.

How is this?
The answer is not far to seek, and stamps with fatal significance one aspect of Poverty, namely, overcrowding.

East London does not gain so fast as other parts, because it will not hold any more people.