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very large, the extent of which may be demonstrated by the fact that
the amount of the loans to house purchasers under the Housing and
Small Dwellings Acquisition Acts at the end of 1927 amounted to
£1,422,671. This estimate has a detrimental effect on all the vital
statistics, in that they appear larger than they really should be
owing to being based on a smaller population. This however cannot
be avoided in intercensal periods as the figures throughout the
Country must be taken on a uniform basis, and the fact that our
housing activities are producing a large influx of population, does
not appear in the figures supplied to us by the Registrar-General
which are based on a definite mathematical basis used uniformly.
The death-rate population excludes all non-civilian males
whether serving at home or abroad; whilst the birth-rate (and
marriage-rate) population includes all the elements of the population
contributing to the birth and marriage rates and may be
represented by : —
Death-rate population plus the district's proportional share of
all non-civilians enlisted from this country.
Deaths.
The number of deaths registered in the district was 1,226, but
660 of these did not belong to the district, while 65 residents died
without the district. Thus the number of deaths properly attributable
to the district was 681,. Adopting the basis of the population
estimated by the Registrar-General, the death-rate for the district
comes to 11.49 per 1,000, which is comparable with the following
figures :—12.3 for England and Wales, and 11.9 for London.
The death-rate corrected by the Registrar-General's factor^ of
.931 is 10.69.
Births.
The total number of births registered during the year was
998, but 155 of these did not belong to this district, while 55 births
properly belonging to this district occurred outside the district. The
nett number of births thus attributable to the district is 808,