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STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1924.
General Statistics.
Area 2,282.5 acres.
Population (1924) 134,200
Population Census (1901) 112,239
(1911) 121,521
(1921) 130,287
Natural increase, i.e., excess of births
over deaths 731
Density of population 58.8 persons
per acre
Marriages registered 1,097
Number of inhabited houses (1921) 17,402
Number of families or separate occupiers
(1921) 33,263
Rateable value (1924) £940,366
Sum represented by a penny rate, 1924 £3,750
Vital Statistics.
Births (legitimate) 2,264 „ (illegitimate) 135 J Dlrth rate 7.9
Deaths (corrected) 1,668 death rate 12.4
Number of women dying in, or in con from sepsis 4
sequence of childbirth from other causes 4
Deaths of infants under one year of
age per 1,000 births:—
Legitimate, 68 Illegitimate, 148 Total, 72
Deaths from measles (all ages) 35
Deaths from whooping cough (all ages) 16
Deaths from diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 15
NATURAL & SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE DISTRICT.
Population.—According to the Census of 1901, the population
of the Borough was then 112,239. By the Census of
1911 the population for the same area was 121,521, showing
an increase during the 10 years of 9,282. The Census of 1921
shows the population of the Borough to be 130,287, being an
increase in the 10 years of 8,766.
In this report the rates are calculated on the estimated
population up to the middle of the year.
At the time of the last Census part of the Defence Force,
which was mobilised as an emergency, was in camp on
Wormwood Scrubbs.
The estimated population adopted by the RegistrarGeneral
is 134,200, but I believe this number to be below the
actual population of the Borough. Since the census was
taken, over thirteen hundred houses have been built by the
London County Council and the Borough Council, in the