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1914
RE PORT
OF THE
Medical Officer of Health
FOR THE YEAR 1914.
POPULATION OF THE BOROUGH, THE SUB-REGISTRATION
DISTRICTS, THEIR AREAS AND DENSITIES.
Estimated Population, 325,496. — It is necessary to have a fairly
accurate estimate of the size of the population if the statistics, especially
the Death Rates and the Birth Rates, are to be reliable. Considerable doubt
has been cast on the accuracy of the estimates of the Registrar-General as
regards this borough, but, as this matter was fully discussed in the last Annual
Report, it will not be further dwelt upon now. It must be stated, however,
that the population of Islington has been lately revised by him as he evidently
felt that his estimate of the population, not only of Islington, but of other
places, was not correct, and in doing so he has taken into consideration the
fall in its natural increase, that is, the excess of births over deaths, since 1911,
and the increase in the loss by migration, and, therefore, his new estimate,
made to the middle of 1914, has been based upon the returns of Births, Deaths
and Migration. The population, as now estimated, is still too low, for it is
almost certain that, instead of being below that of the census of 1911, when it
was 327,403, it is in excess of it for the reasons given in the report referred to.
The present estimate shows a decrease of 1,907 persons; so small a number
does not, however, affect the accuracy of the rates to any great extent.
Sexes of Population.—The number of males estimated to be living
in Islington is 154,968, and of females, 170,528. The population was of
course, slightly affected by the number of males of military age who enlisted
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