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Hampstead 1910
Report for the year 1910 of the Medical Officer of Health
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POPULATION.
The population of Hampstead at the middle of 1910 was estimated
by the Registrar-General to be 95,729.
The Registrar-General's estimate has been adopted in this Report,
and it forms the basis upon which the various rates have been calculated.
It is arrived at by assuming that since the last census the population
has increased at the same rate as in the last inter-censal period, and
therefore it is based on the census returns of 1891 and 1901. Estimates
of population have only an approximate value, and are likely to be
more erroneous in the later years of an inter-censal period. The census
that was taken on April 2nd of the present year will show how far
the estimate of the Registrar-General has approached to accuracy, but
the results of the census have not been published in time to be available
for this Report.
The following is an approximate estimate of the population of the various Wards of the Borough:—
| Ward 1 (Town) | 15100 |
| „ 2 (Belsize) | 15200 |
| ,, 3 (Adelaide) | 11000 |
| „ 4 (Central) | 10869 |
| „ 5 (West End) | 14900 |
| „ 6 (Kilburn) | 17260 |
| ,, 7 (Priory) | 11400 |
The area of the Borough (including the area, twelve acres in extent,
covered by water) is 2,265 acres, and the estimated number of persons
to the acre is 42.3. The proportion of persons to the acre at the census
1901 was 36.17.
At the census of 1881 the number of persons per acre was 23,
and in 1891 it was 30.