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The population for 1910 is less by 711 than the population for
the preceding year.
During 1910, in connection with a petition to the London
County Council, it was found necessary to ascertain the population
of enumeration districts 11 and 12 in Clerkenwell—the
numbers so obtained were 400 less than those of the census
of 1901. So that it would appear that the decrease of the
number of Finsbury residents is borne out in the actual facts,
and is not a mere theoretical deduction.
The reasons for the decrease in population have been given
in previous annual reports.
BIRTHS.—During 1910 there were registered 2,833 births of
Finsbury residents, equal to a birth-rate of 29.9 per 1,000 living.
This rate is the same as it was in 1909, and is only 2.1 per
1,000 less than it was ten years ago. It is higher than it was
in 1905 and 1907. The birth-rate for Finsbury has not fallen to
the same extent that it has diminished in the country generally.