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at the next meeting the Registrar-General's reply was submitted stating that
the appointment rested with the Guardians, the hours of attendance with the
Registrar-General and that the registration fees were fixed by statute. So the
Council's views are on record merely as " a pious opinion."

For District Rate made 27th October, 1914, there were found to be
12478 houses in assessment, of which no less than 7981 houses were of the
rateable value of £10 per annum, or under.
I estimate the nett population at the middle of 1914 as 68,908 persons
including 316 Edmonton people in Edmonton Workhouse and Infirmary and
705 Belgian refugees and resident staff. This population has been allocated to
the three Wards as follows, dividing the paupers equally amongst them :—
Bury Street 22,101
Church Street 24,078
Fore Street (705 Belgian refugees) 22,729
68,908
The nett population, excluding Belgians, is 68,203
In the Edmonton Workhouse and Infirmary there were estimated to be
1,452 persons, of whom 316 were Edmonton residents.
The area of the district is 3,894 acres (less 31 of water), and the density of
the population, or the average number of persons per acre of land, is 18.1.
This figure is calculated on the gross population, which includes the average
populations of Edmonton Workhouse, the Edmonton Infirmary and Nurses'
Home, and the Belgian refugees, and amounts to 70,044. The RegistrarGeneral's
estimate is 69,294, his earlier one was 71,024.
The natural increase of the population, that is the excess of the nett total
of births over the nett total of deaths, in 1914 was 1859 minus 736, equals
1)123, without Belgians.