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Summary of Statistics.
Area in acres 2,874
Rateable value (District Rate) £711,054
Population, Census, 1901 72,056
1911 84,592
Estimated Population 1920 (June 80th) 98,107
Number of persons per acre, 1920 30.6
„ „ „ house (Census, 1911) 5.032
Estimated birth-rate per 1,000 living, 1920 17.3
Estimated death-rate per 1,000 living, 1920 9.2
Deaths under 1 year of age, per 1,000 births, 1920 54
Death-rate from Zymotic diseases, 1920 0.40
„ „ Phthisis 0.62
„ „ other forms of Tuberculosis 0.03
„ all „ „ „ 0.65
„ „ Cancer 1.21
Population.— The total population of the Borough at the
middle of 1920 is estimated by the Registrar-General at 98,107.
Births.— The number of Births recorded during 1920 was
males 861 and females 846, making a total of 1,707. This is an
increase of 519 as compared with the number of births registered
in 1919. In the preceding twelve months (1919 compared with
1918) there was an increase of 151 in the recorded births.
Twenty-three of the births occurred in the Edmonton Infirmary
and 86 at other Institutions and places outside the
Borough.
The birth-rate for the year was 17.3, as compared with 12.09
in 1919.
Illegitimate Births.— There were 76 illegitimate births
recorded in 1920, and 33 in 1919.
The proportion of illegitimate births to the total registered
births is 4.4 per cent., an increase of 1.6 as compared with last
year.
Seventeen of the illegitimate births occurred in the Edmonton
Infirmary.
Deaths.— The number of deaths registered in the Borough
in 1920 was 657, being 115 deaths less than the number registered
in 1919.
The death-rate calculated on these figures (gross death-rate)
is 6.7 per thousand of the mean population for the year. This
is 1.5 less than in 1919.