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This estimate does not take into account the Finsbury residents
detained in the following outlying institutions : The Holborn
Union Workhouse, Shepherdess Walk (1,119); the Workhouse
Infirmary, Archway Road (264); the Holborn Union Workhouse,
Mitcham (616); and the Holborn Schools, Mitcham (346), giving
a total of 2,345. Adding these to 94,578, the Registrar-General's
estimate, gives a corrected population of 96,923 for the whole
Borough.
It has been found difficult to get the figures for previous
years of the residents detained in these outlying institutions.
It must be obvious, however, that these figures should certainly
be taken into account when dealing with birth- and death-rates.
To take an example, a Finsbury paitient who dies in Mitcham
is, in respect of his death, accredited to Finsbury. Such a
patient, if he recovers and is discharged, in most cases returns
to his home in Finsbury. It is therefore quite fallacious to
ignore him in the assessment of the population and to include
him in estimating the death-rate.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the population of Finsbury
does not include these Finsbury residents in outlying districts—
this estimate is only concerned with those Finsbury residents
actually found living within the municipal boundaries. The others
are allocated to the districts in which the institutions are situated.
The Registrar-General's estimate is founded on the population
ascertained at the two preceding censuses, and these numbers
only record those people living on the census dates inside the
confines of the borough.
The exclusion of these people has, however, other consequences—it
makes the population appear lower than it should
be, and as a result makes the crude death-rate appear to be
higher than it really is. The death-rate for 1910, based on the
Registrar-General's figures is 17.29, but calculated on the corrected
population, 96,923, is 16.9 per 1,000 inhabitants.
In previous years the rates were calculated on the RegistrarGeneral's
figures; for the sake of uniformity and comparison, this
method has been continued in the present report.