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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
TO TH EE STRAND DISTRICT BOARD OF WORKS.
Gentlemen,
In previous Reports I have referred to the difficulties which
existed in forming a correct estimate of the population of this
District, and have pointed out that considerable difference existed
between the figures of the Registrar-General as calculated under
the "Equalisation of Rates Act," and as deduced from the
decrease ascertained at the census periods of 1881 and 1891. In
the latter method he estimates that as the population of the
district has decreased so much in ten years, the probability is that
the decrease will proceed at the same rate in the next ten years;
in the former he receives annually a return of the number of
inhabited houses in the district, and multiplying that by the
average number of persons per house as shown at the last Census,
finds the population for any intercensal year. Last year the
difference between the two estimates was 1,705, that under the
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