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POPULATION.
The Vital Statistics in this report have been calculated
on the estimated resident population of the
Borough at the middle of the year 1932 of 106,300.
CENSUS, 1931.
Since the last Annual Report, the complete figures
for the Census of 1931 have been published and the
more important tables are reprinted in this report. The
population fell by 8.5 per cent between 1911 and 1921.
Between 1921 and 1931 it fell by a further 7.7 percent,
a loss of 16 2 per cent by migration being offset
by a nett addition of 8.5 per cent excess of births over
deaths. The average age was found to be 29.5 for
males, and 30.7 for females, compared with 32 and
33.9 respectively, for the County of London. The
average size of the family was 3.79 compared with 3.46
for London as a whole.
Statistics with regard to the density of the population,
occupation of dwellings, overcrowding, etc., are
given in the Housing Section of this report.
The age and sex composition and marital condition
of the population will be seen in the following table :