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[1919
REPORT
OF THE
Medical Officer of Health
FOR THE YEAR 1919.
Population.—The population of the Borough has been estimated by the
Registrar-General for the calculation of the death rate and birth rate of the
Borough for the year 1919, as follows:—
For the death rate, 323,034
Do. birth rate, 336,506
The death rate population excludes all non-civilian males, whether serving
at home or abroad. The Registrar-General has considered this necessary for
the purpose of local death rates because it has proved impossible to transfer
the deaths of non-civilians to their areas of residence, or to deal in any other
satisfactory manner with the local mortality of this element in the population.
These estimates are based mainly upon the rationing returns of the"
Ministry of Food.
The birth rate (and marriage' rate) population, on the other hand, is
intended co include all elements of the population contributing to the birth
and marriage rates. It consists, therefore, of the death rate or civilian population
plus all non-civilians enlisted from this borough, whether serving at
home or abroad. This non-civilian element has been distributed over all the
districts in the country in proportion to their estimated civilian population.
In 1919 there were 53 weeks in the official year, so that in order to obtain
rates comparable with other years, they are calculated on a population the one
fifty-second part larger than the estimate.