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14
POPULATION
The Registrar General has submitted his estimate of the population
of Greenwich, computed at mid-year 1959, upon which the
statistics of this Report have been based. The figure returned is
88,970, indicating a decrease in the population of 210 since last year
and a fall of 876 since the 1951 Census. However, the current figure
shows an advance of 25,170 over that for 1945.
The natural increase for the year, i.e., excess of births over
deaths, was 447 compared with 416 for 1958.
In preventive medicine it has been expedient from time to time,
and for specific purposes, to make analyses of the population
figures with particular regard to age distribution, e.g., diphtheria
and poliomyelitis prophylaxis and, more recently, the problem of
the aged. The following figures give an indication of the general
position in respect of "child," "working," and "elderly" groups
in the Borough.