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2 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
It is probable, however, that this calculation gives a population
somewhat in excess of the actual population, as the number
of persons per rated hereditament may have decreased. As the
current year (1911) is a Census year the population will be fully
corrected before the middle of the year. In the meantime, however,
the method adopted, in my opinion, gives the closest
approximation to the actual population.
The population for the purposes of the Equalisation of Rates
Act was estimated in 1906 as 296,020, in 1907, 308,663, in 1908,
318,603, in 1909, 327,322, and in 1910, 332,843, these populations
being calculated from the number of rated houses.
Table I. shows the population of each Ward and the number
of rated hereditaments in 1901, the number of hereditaments in
the middle of 1910, and the estimated population.