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7
POPULATION.
As explained in last year's Report the war has made it impossible
to adhere to the methods of estimation of local and national populations
hitherto in use. For 1916 the Registrar General has adopted
the following estimates of population for Deptford for the calculation
of the Death Rate and Birth Rate :—
For the Death Rate - 107,696.
For the Birth Rate - 117,175.
The former is an estimate of the civilian population ; the latter of
the total population based on the assumption that the ratio between the
total and the civilian population is the same in the Borough as in
England and Wales as a whole.
From local knowledge, however, it is apparent that Deptford has a
civilian population as large as, if not larger than the population at the
time of the National Register, and for the purposes of this report the
estimated civil population has been taken as 110,299.
Births.

Illegitimate Births.
The illegitimate births, which number 87, occurred in the several
Wards, as follows: —
East Ward 21
South Ward 8
North Ward 13
South-East Ward 10
North-West Ward 20
South-West Ward 15