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Area and Population.
Acres. Estimated Population.
1564 114,100
The decennial census was taken on June 19th, 1921, at a time
when, owing to abnormally fine weather, holiday movement was in
progress. The 1921 census return of 112,534 was therefore not
wholly accurate and the Registrar-General recognised this and
adjusted the census result by a redistribution of the estimated population
on holiday, increasing the census number of 112,534 to 113,500.
The population of Deptford to the middle of 1922 has been
estimated by the Registrar-General as 114,100. This estimate has
been based on the adjusted 1921 figures, after allowing for the varying
rate of natural increase as evidenced by the births and deaths, and of
migration as indicated from other sources, such as the changes in the
numbers on the Parliamentary Register and the migration returns
from the Board of Trade.
The population for each of the various wards, based on this estimate,
was as follows :—
East 21,624 South 13,245
North 24,275 South-East 13,276
North-West 24,419 South-West 17,261
As the Borough has an area of 1,564 acres, the density of the
population on this estimate is 73 persons per acre approximately.
Births.
Births. Birth rate
per 1,000.
2,631 23-1
The total number of births registered in the Borough was 2,515,
and of these 81 were transferred to other districts, as the permanent
addresses of the parents were outside this Borough. Similarly, 197
births occurring outside of the Borough, in maternity hospitals, were
transferred to Deptford, making a total of 2,631 birchs in all belonging
to Deptford. Of these, 1,356 were males and 1,275 were females.
This figure gives a birth-rate of 23.1 per 1,000 of the estimated population,
as compared with 23.5 for the year 1921.
The birth-rate for England and Wales for 1923 was 20.6
,, „ the 105 County Boroughs and Great Towns was 21.4
,, ,, the 155 Smaller Towns was 20.5
,, ,, the County of London was 21.0
The rate for Deptford was therefore considerably higher than the
average for the country as a whole. Table I shows the number of
births and birth-rates for the past ten years :—