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7
POPULATION.
According to the Census of 1901 the population of the Borough
was then 51,247. At the previous Census of 1891 the population for
the same area was 47,988, so that the population had increased
during the 10 years to the extent of 3,259. In this Report the
rates are based on the estimated population for the middle of the
year 1907, and the figure, calculated logarithmically from the increase
between 1891 and 1901, amounts to 53,395. I believe this to be a
slight over-estimation of the population, having regard to the fact
that the number of occupied houses in the Borough in April, 1907,
amounted to only 7,886, and the number of occupants to each house
averaged only 6.6 at the last Census. It is, however, upon the above
figure, obtained by the official method, that the various rates dealt
with in this report are calculated, since, in some parts of the Borough
the average number of occupants per house has increased during the
past few years; and when in addition to this circumstance allowance
is made for the number of residents in the large block of Industrial
Dwellings in Victoria Road, occupied since the last Census enumertion,
the estimate should be a very close one.
The estimated population for each of the Sub-districts is as
follows:
The Northern Division of the Borough (lying North of the middle
line of Church Street) has a population of about 18,620; and in the
Southern Division the population is about 34,775.
The natural increase of population by excess of births over
deaths during the year amounted to 443, as against 472 in the
preceding year.
Number of people to the acre.—The area of the Borough
amounts to 863 acres, and this, divided among the residents,
represents 61.9 people to the acre.
Births—Birth-rate.—During the year 1907 there were 1,042
births registered in the Borough, viz.—544 males and 498 females.