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Population.
The figure of 188,710 as the Registrar-General's estimate of
the civilian population is a drop on the figure for the previous year,
even though it includes temporary residents from other areas.
Apart from the official evacuees there are large numbers of persons
who have made their own arrangements to come here. Though
the total figures remain much the same, they are in fact only the
balance of quite considerable movements of population. To what
extent these changes took place during last year information is
not available, but for a period of weeks in the early months of
1941 a net weekly increase in population of 370 was the balance
of an average of 880 coming into the area and 510 leaving. These
movements in population add materially to the work of the health
visitors, whose records show that up to the end of May, 1941,
nearly 1,000 children under five years of age had been evacuated
from the district, against which were to be off-set some 750 who
had moved in. Apart from these there were another 750 children
under five years of age who had left the district permanently.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the mid-year population is
lower than that which was assumed, and lower than the figure of
195,000 given by the Chief Warden in his report in October when
he found the distribution of the population in the different districts
to be—Pinner North 14,000; Headstone 10,000; Pinner South
25,000; West Harrow 11,000; Roxeth 22,000; Harrow 9,000;
Wealdstone South 16,000; Wealdstone North 20,000; Kenton
20,000; Harrow Weald 10,000; Stanmore North 13,000;
Stanmore South 25,000.
The return in June, compiled from information obtained
at the time the Contex containers were being fitted to the gas
masks of the population, disclosed that of the figure of 186,459,
4,586 infants of an average age of 21 months were provided with
babies' protective helmets and 6,361 children of an average age
of 3 years 7 months were furnished with small children's respirators.
The population was distributed through 58,831 houses or dwellings,
giving an average figure of 3.17 per house, a figure appreciably
smaller than that found in recent years, namely, 3.37 in 1938,
3.31 in 1937 and 3.46 in 1936.
Deaths.
Total deaths in the district 1,231
Outward transfers 211
Inward transfers 705
Deaths of residents 1,725
The figure for the outward transfers is much larger than in
previous years, this being in part due to the fact that the Royal
National Orthopaedic Hospital has been enlarged and is used for
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