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statistics in this Report are based is 172,650, and is obtained by
estimating the populations of the several wards, making allowance for
the large number of persons resident in Poor-Law establishments
beyond the City boundary whose deaths are allocated to the City, and
for the temporary residents in hotels and hospitals in the City whose
deaths when they occur are excluded.
According to the proportion existing at the last census, there are
81,534 males and 94,336 females in the estimated population.
It is usual to take the number of births and deaths to the end of the
week nearest December 31st, consequently, every few years an extra
week has to be included. Thus 1908, for statistical purposes, contained
53 weeks, and allowance has to be made for the births and deaths which
occurred.
Births.
2,665 births were registered in the City in the 53 weeks ending
January 2nd, 1909. On examination, 48 births were found to be
referable to other districts. Through the courtesy of the Committees of
Management of Endell Street, York Road, Queen Charlotte, and the
Clapham Maternity Lying-in Institutions, of the Master of the Strand
Workhouse at Edmonton, the Secretary of the French Hospital, the
Steward of St. George's Workhouse, Fulham Road, and of other Medical
Officers, I have ascertained that 296 children were born in outlying
institutions, the home address of whose mothers was in Westminster.