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In previous annual reports I have expressed the opinion that the
Registrar-General's estimate of the population was too high, and the
census results show that this opinion was justified. The various
birth rates and mortality rates, etc., in previous years have been
calculated on the basis of the estimated population, and as these
estimates are now known to be too high, it follows that the rates
based upon them were slightly too low.
I have, therefore, re-calculated the rates for years intervening
between the census years, basing them on populations re-estimated in
the light of the census returns.
Of the 29 metropolitan boroughs, including the City, 20 showed
a decrease of population; Hampstead was one of the nine metropolitan
boroughs in which there was an increase of population in the last
inter-censal period. The following table shows the increase or decrease
of population in each of the metropolitan districts:—