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SECTION I.
Natural and Social Conditions of the Borough.
Area.—The area of the Borough is 7015 acres.
Population.—The population of the Borough as shewn by
the Census of 1921 was 174,194.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the population at the
middle of 1926 is 187,800. This estimate is supplied for use
in calculating the vital statistics, and has been derived from the
Census population in 1921, after allowance for the births, deaths
and migration which occurred between the Census date and the
30th June last. It is explained that in the absence of definite
information regarding migration between localities, the allowance
made for this element of the movement is necessarily an approximate
one. The method adopted has been applied impartially
to all areas of the country, and the Registrar-General believes
that for the majority of areas the resulting population may be
accepted as sufficiently accurate for the purposes they are intended
to serve.
As I pointed out in my last Annual Report, there is every
reason to believe, when local circumstances are taken into consideration,
that the population of this Borough is considerably
larger than the Registrar-General estimates, but as we have no
reliable factor on which to base an estimate, we shall have to
await the Census of 1931 in order to see whether this surmise
is correct.
Inhabited Houses.—The Census of 1921 gives the number
of structurally separate dwellings in the Borough as 34,420, in
the occupation of 43,685 families.