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SUMMARY OF REPORT FOR 1926.
Area of Borough, 2,694 acres. Area of various open spaces, 501 acres.
Soil and Situation.—Practically the whole of the Borough is situated on London
clay. There are a few superficial deposits of gravel in the south, and lower Bagshot sands in
the extreme north.
The altitude varies from 48 feet above ordnance datum, the lowest point, which is
situated in the south of the Borough in the neighbourhood of Ampton Street, King's Cross
Road, to 427 feet above ordnance datum, the highest point, which is in Pond Square in the
extreme north of the Borough.
The Borough is about four miles long, extending from near Oxford Street in the
south to Highgate in the north, and averages about a mile in width.
Population (1921 Census), 211,366. Population (1926) Civilian, 216,400. Total, 216,800.
Number of persons per acre, 80. Number of inhabited houses (1921 Census), 24,660.
Number of families or separate occupiers (1921 Census) 56,603.
Births.
Males, 1,831; females, 1,781. Total, 3,612.
Legitimate births, 3,386; illegitimate births, 226.
Birth-rate, 16.7 per 1,000 of population.
Excess of births over deaths, 932.
Deaths.
Males, 1,454; females, 1,226. Total, 2,680.
Death-rate, 12.4 per 1,000 of population.
Infantile Mortality Rate.
Legitimate, 73; illegitimate, 119. Total, 76 per 1,000 births.
Maternal Mortality.
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of child-birth :
From Sepsis, 1; from other causes, 9.
Maternal death-rate per 1,000 births, 2.8.
Deaths from Measles (all ages), 65.
„Whooping Cough (all ages), 24.
,,Diarrhœa and Enteritis (under 2 years of age), 52.
Tuberculosis.
Pulmonary. Deaths, 175; death-rate, 0.81 per 1,000 of population.
All forms. Deaths, 212; death-rate, 0.98 per 1,000 of population.
Rateable value, £2,069,948. Sum produced by a penny rate, £8,515.
Total rainfall during the year (recorded at Camden Square), 27.23 inches.