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REPORT.
I.—AREA AND POPULATION.
The Urban District of Coulsdon and Purley was created
by an Order of the Surrey County Council and confirmed by
the Local Government Board, and came into operation on the
1st April, 1915.
The District consists of five Wards, viz., Coulsdon,
Kenley, Purley, Sanderstead, and Woodcote.
Owing to the unusual state of affairs existing, the
estimation of the population was found to be most difficult,
and under these circumstances the Registrar-General has for
the year under review estimated the civil population for each
district throughout England and Wales. The method by
which the estimate of the population has been derived by the
Registrar-General from the National Register may be briefly
described as follows:—
The ratio of the total population, less the males aged 15 to 65
years of age to the number of females aged 15 to 65 years at
the date of the Census was calculated, and this ratio was
applied to the number of females on the National Register;
the resulting product, plus the number of males aged 16 to 65
years on the National Register, was taken to be the civil
population of the District. Further, the population in
Institutions were not taken and this, together with a number
of persons of no fixed abode, were distributed evenly over the
whole country.
The estimate of the population for this District was
17,920.