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6
POPULATION.
The following estimates prepared by the Registrar-General of
population have been adopted in this Report for the calculation of the
death-rate and birth-rate of the Borough for the year 1918:—
For the death-rate 71,815
„ birth-rate 80,466
The "death rate population" excludes all non-civilian males, whether
serving at home or abroad. This, it is state 1, is necessary for the
purposes of local death-rates, because it has proved impossible to
transfer the deaths of non-civilians to their areas of residence or to
deal in any other satisfactory manner with the local mortality of this
element in the population.
The "birth-rate (and marriage-rate) population," on the other hand,
is intended to include all the elements of the population contributing to
the birth and marriage rates. It consists therefore of the "death-rate (or
civilian) population "plus all non-civilians enlisted from this Borough,
whether serving at home or abroad.
For the first year on record Hampstead had no natural increase in
population, i.e., excess of births over deaths; the number of nett
deaths exceeding the nett births by 132.