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The reasons for this depopulation have been given in previous
annual reports : briefly, it has been in progress during the last 40
years, and is due to the fact that the borough is becoming more and
more a manufacturing and business centre and less and less
residential.
The number of inhabited houses in 1891 was 10,365 ; in 1901,
was 9,287.
In 1911, the number of persons per family or occupancy was for
Clerkenwell 4.07, for St, Luke's 4.24, for St.. Sepulchre 4.54. The
corresponding numbers for 1901 were 4.58, 5.20, and 5.47 respectively.
In all the districts, therefore, the number of persons per
occupancy has diminished since the last census.
In previous years the death rates and birth rates have been callated
on the basis of the inlying population as estimated by the
Registrar-General; for the sake of uniformity and comparison, this
method has been continued in the present report.
The populations in the inter-censal years have been calculated
by an improved method described in the Registrar-General's
Annual Report for 1907
All these populations are, for the present, subject to future alteration,
when the final revised census report for 1911 shall have been
issued.
At the time of writing only the preliminary census report is
available.
BIRTHS.—During 1911 there were registered 2,676 births of
Finsbury residents, equal to a birth-rate of 30 6 per 1,000 living.
This rate is less than it was last year, and, with one exception,
the lowest yet recorded since 1901.
The birth rate for Finsbury has not fallen to the same extent
that it has diminished in the country generally.