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For Registration, Parliamentary and Municipal purposes the boundaries of the
City are co-terminous.
The following table shows the progressive decline which has taken place since
1861 in the number of inhabitants who reside within the City boundaries, and the
progressive increase in the number of workers who are daily employed in the City:—
Imperial Census. City Census.
Year. Night Population. Day Population.
1861 112,063 —
1866 — 170,133
1871 75,983 —
1881 51,405 261,061
1891 37,705 301,384
1901 26,923 —
1911 19,657 364,061
There is now only one registration district in the City. This comprises the City
Area. and the population therein for the year 1920 is estimated as being 12,200.
The Day Census taken in 1911 showed that the day population was 364,061
persons, and also that 1,077,155 persons and 94,095 vehicles entered and left the City
on the day the count was taken.
POPULATION AND HOUSING.
No official approval has yet been received to the Hutchison Street Area Scheme,
which was the subject of an Inquiry by the Ministry of Health in March, 1920.
As regards the building proposals of the Corporation, some progress has been
made, and at the date at which this Report is written I am informed by the City
Engineer that concrete foundations have been put in for 634 houses, brickwork
foundations of 220 houses have been completed, first-floor joists have been laid for 194
houses, 132 houses have been roofed in and 36 actually completed, of which the
majority are in occupation. The roads and sewers for the whole of the north-west
section of the site have been constructed.
The Special Housing Committee and the Court of Common Council have at present
under consideration the subject of whether the original scheme for the erection of
2,000 houses should be proceeded with, or whether a restricted scheme should not
be Substituted, and, if so, the extent of the restriction.
I have already directed attention to the fact that in the City the majority of houses
not attached to warehouses or institutions have seen their best days, and unless some
of the smaller areas are appropriated for building purposes, which is not practicable
at the present day owing to restrictive legislation, it will be necessary for your Medical
Officer of Health, as soon as the lack of housing accommodation is less acute, to take
into consideration the desirability of reporting on some of the smaller areas.
VACCINATION.
Of the 471 births notified to the Vaccination Officers during 1920, 148 had been
successfully vaccinated by the end of the year, 22 had died before the age for
vaccination, and in no case was a child reported as insusceptible. Vaccination was
postponed by medical certificate in 6 cases, 199 had removed into other districts,
or the vaccinations were pending at the end of the year. There were 96 instances
of conscientious objection. The Public Vaccinators performed 9 re-vaccinations
during the year.