View report page

21
in the Edmonton Urban District. For the week ending June 22nd
Edmonton had the lowest death rate (4.7 per thousand living) of all the
95 largest towns in England and Wales. This was the third time it
occupied this favoured position during 1912.
To Mr. Harman Judd, the local Registrar, I owe thanks fox the care
and promptness exercised in the returns to me, on which foundation the
whole fabric of my statistics is raised.

For District Rate made April 9th, 1912, there were found to be
12,296 houses in assessment, of which no less than 8,456 houses were under
the rateable value of £10 per annum.
I estimate the nett population at the middle of 1912 as 65,084
persons, including 302 Edmonton people in our public institutions. This
population has been allocated to the three Wards as follows :—
Bury Street ... 21,500
Church Street ... 22,166
Fore Street ... 21,418
65,084
In the Strand Union and School and the Edmonton Workhouse and
Infirmary there were estimated to be 2385 persons, of whom 302 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 17.4. This figure is calculated on the gross population, which
includes the average populations of the Strand Union and Edmonton
Union Workhouses, the Edmonton Infirmary and Nurses' Home, and
Strand Union School, and amounts to 67,167.
The natural increase of the population, that is, the excess of the nett
total of births over the nett total of deaths, in 1912 was 1765 minus
666, equals 1,099.