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ADDITIONAL DETAILS.
Natural and Social Conditions of the District.
Population and Houses.
The enumerated population at the Census taken on Sunday, April 2nd, 1911.
was 49,357, a reduction of 10,048 on the previous census of 1901 or 10.9 per cent.
During the previous decennium 1891-1901 there was a reduction of 7,376 or 11.0
per cent.
The following estimate of population has been adopted for the calculation of
the death-rate and birth-rate of the Borough for the year 1920—39,670.
At the Census 1911 the number of inhabited buildings was 7,985, and uninhabited
(i.e., used for business purposes only) 1,393, and 38 were in course of erection. 33T
per cent. of the population lived in tenements of only one or two rooms and 59.5 per
cent. in tenement, of 1—4 rooms. The density of the population was 122 persons per
acre in comparison with 61 for London.
Although the number of Hotels and Boarding Houses keeps increasing, the
Borough is becoming less and less residential and more and more important as a
business centre. The number of factories, workshops, workplaces and offices keeps
increasing so that we have now a very large day population.
The chief occupations of the Borough are : Professional (Law, Architecture, etc.) ;
Public Societies' and Commercial Offices ; Hotels and Boarding Houses; Printing
and Bookbinding; Metal Refining; Precious stones and general trades and
businesses.
Vital Statistics.
The birth-rate of the Borough was 20.8 per 1,000 in comparison with 13.6 per
1,000 in 1919.
The death-rate was 15.2 per 1,000 in comparison with 10.4 in 1919. The deathrates
for 1918 and 1919 were very high especially on account of the very large number
of deaths from influenza and respiratory diseases, many of which were really complications
of influenza.
The population last year in the 999 L.C.C. tenements in the Borough was estimated
at 3,611. The number of deaths was 45 or a death-rate of 12.5 per 1,000.
On the other hand the number of deaths of residents of Common Lodging Houses
in the Borough, which contain 1,220 beds was 69, which estimated on the number of
beds was a rate of 56.6 per 1,000.