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The various rates quoted in. this Report for the years 1908 to 1911
are the rates as stated in previous Reports; they are calculated upon the
then estimated populations, but the rates in Tables IV., V., VI. and
VII. have been calculated upon revised estimated populations based
upon the censuses of 1901 and 1911 with the exception of the populations
for 1915-1916, which were calculated by the Registrar General
on the returns furnished under the National Registration Act, 1915.
The following estimates of population have been adopted in the General
Register Office, Somerset House, for the calculation of the death rate and
birth rate of the Borough for the year 1917:
For the death rate 143,443
,, „ birth ,, 159,898
Births and Transferable Births.