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The natural increase in population, i.e., excess of births over deaths,
was 369.
Physical Features and General Character of the Borough.
The major portion of the Borough of Hampstead is situated on a
hill, and this has often led to the mistaken idea that the whole of
Hampstead consists of high land. This is not so, for whilst the summit
of the hill at the Flagstaff is 438 feet above sea-level, large districts at
Chalk Farm and Kilburn are flat, and are only approximately 100 feet
above sea level. The mass of the hill is clay, covered on its upper parts
by a large bed of sand, known as Bagshot sands. This cap of sand is
an out-lier of the much greater stretches which extend over a large
portion of Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire.
Hampstead is one of the healthiest of the London Boroughs.
It is almost entirely residential; well-to-do people comprising the
majority of the population; the two districts of Kilburn and Fleet
Road, however, are entirely working class.
The atmosphere is dry and bracing; tuberculosis and rheumatic
cases do well here.
MARRIAGES.
According to the return kindly furnished to me by the Superintendent
Registrar of Hampstead, it appears that 708 marriages were
registered in the Borough during 1921, as compared with 859 in the
preceding year.