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POPULATION.
The Registrar-General's provisional estimate of the population
of Hampstead at the middle of 1915, based upon the Censuses of 1901
and 1911, together with the returns made under the National Registration
Act, 1915, was 81,760. This estimate has been adopted in this
Report and, with the exception of the birth rates, it forms the basis
upon which the various rates have been calculated.
By the direction of the Registrar General the birth rates have
been calculated upon the estimated population at the middle of 1914,
which was 86,731.
MARRIAGES.
According to the return kindly furnished to me by the
Superintendent Registrar of Hampstead, it appears that 951 marriages
were registered in the Borough during 1915.

BIRTHS.
During the year 1,222 births were registered in Hampstead, an
increase of 9 as compared with 1,213 registered in the previous year.
In addition 105 births of children, whose mothers were Hampstead
residents, occurred outside the Borough in Lying-in Institutions, etc.
2 births registered in Hampstead belonged to other Districts and must
be subtracted from the total.
After these corrections have been made the net number of births
belonging to Hampstead was 1,327, as compared with 1,273 in 1914, an
increase of 54. This increase is largely accounted for by the fact that
90 were children of Belgian Refugees born in a Lying-in Home for
Belgians situated in the Borough.