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POPULATION, 1912.
The Registrar General's estimate of the population
of the Borough in the middle of the year under
consideration is 127,985 ; this figure is arrived at on
the assumption that the rate of decrease obtaining
during the ten years 1901 to 1911 has been maintained
since April, 1911, and presupposes a continued decrease
in our numbers during the year of 198 persons. As a
fact the births in the Borough during this period
exceeded the deaths by 1,947, so that the question
naturally arises as to what has become of these 2,145
persons who must have gone elsewhere instead of
remaining to swell our population. Moreover, as the
foreign influx continues more or less, the number who
have emigrated must largely exceed the figure 1 have
set down. Table A shows these details and compares
them with those of the previous year:—

BIRTHS.
The children born actually in the Borough numbered
3,702, but in addition to these I have received
information from Somerset House of what are