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POPULATION.
The population at the last census (1911) was 50,689.
The following estimates of population have been adopted by
the Registrar General for the calculation of the death-rate and
birth-rate of the borough for the year 1919:
For the death rate 50,954
For the birth rate 53,079
The death-rate population excludes all non-civilian males,
whether serving at home or abroad. This is necessary for the
purposes 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 kindly placed at the disposal of the
Department by the Ministry of Food.
The birth-rate (and marriage-rate) population, on the other
hand, is intended to include all the 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 country, 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.
The estimated population for each of the Sub-districts is as
follows:—
The Northern Division of the Borough (lying North of the
middle line of Church Street) has a population of about 17,660;
and in the Southern Division the population is approximately
33,294.