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POPULATION.
The population at the last census (1911) was 50,689.
The following estimate of population has been adopted by
the Registrar-General for the calculation ot the death-rates and
birth-rate of the borough for the year 1920:—52,984.
This may prove to be a considerable under-estimate of the
population, now that the National Service Registers and the Food
Ticket issues are no longer available as means for arriving at the
number of the population; and the disturbing effects of the war
have discounted the value of the method of estimating the population
on the assumption that the rate of increase which took place
between the last two Censuses has been maintained (the RegistrarGeneral's
method); and so the estimate is a speculative one only.
An alternative method of taking the number of occupied houses
in the Borough and allotting to each house the average number of
persons found to be occupying a house at the last Census (1911),
would doubtless under-estimate the population, having regard
to the fact that a higher figure must now be taken to represent
the average occupancy of each house. I believe that the present-day
population of Stoke Newington exceeds 55,000. There has been
no time in the history of the Borough when a Census enumeration
was more needed than now, and it is a fortunate circumstance
that 1921 is a Census year.
The estimated population far 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 18,340;
and in the Southern Division the population is approximately
34,644.
BIRTHS.
During the year 1920 there were 1,223 births, viz.:—642
males and 581 females. The birth-rate per 1,000 per annum was
therefore 23 1, as against 16'8 for the preceding year.