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POPULATION AND HOUSES.
The enumerated Population at the Census taken on Sunday, April 2nd, 1911,
was 49,357, a reduction of 10,048 on the previous census of 1901 or 16.9 per cent.
During the previous decennium 1891-1901 there was a reduction of 7,376 or 11.0
per cent. The Borough is becoming less and less residential and more and more
important as a business centre. The number of factories, workshops, workplaces
and offices keeps increasing so that we have now a very large day population.
The density of the population was 122 persons per acre in comparison with 61
for London.
The number of inhabited buildings was 7,985 and uninhabited 1,393, and
38 were in course of erection.
Further details were given in my last Annual Report.

CORRECTED BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATES.
Of the 780 registered births in St. Giles and Bloomsbury, a large proportion
of which took place at the British Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street, as many as
428 (393 legitimate and 35 illegitimate) were of infants whose mothers were nonresidents
in the Borough. In addition I received information of the births in
outlying Institutions of 78 infants whose mothers were residents of the Borough,
39 of St. Giles and Bloomsbury and 39 of the Holborn Division, and of 1
birth of the Holborn Division that was notified but not registered.