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Tuberculosis—
Dispensary Medical Officer—Dr. L. U. Young.
Tuberculosis Nurse—Nurse Ager (Part-time.)
Measles, Whooping Cough, Etc.
Borough Nurses—Nurse Ross (Ranyard Nurse) and Nurse
Ager (Part-time).
POPULATION.
The population at the last census (1921) was 52,167.
The following estimate of population for the middle of 1926 has
been adopted by the Register-General for the calculation of the
death-rates and birth-rate of the Borough for the year 1926:—
53,080.
It has been derived from the 1921 Census population (corrected
where necessary to give a closer approximation to the resident
population of that year, as described in the Registrar General's
Statistical Review for 1921) after allowance for the births, deaths
and migration which occurred between the census date and the
30th June last.
In the absence of definite information regarding migration
between localities, the allowance made for this element of movement
is necessarily an approximate one. It is to be observed,
however, that the basis of estimation has been modified from time
to time in the light of accumulated evidence regarding the effect
of the migration factor. The figure given above is beheved to
provide as true a measure of the position in June last as the data
permit.
BIRTHS.
During the year 1926 there were 852 births, viz.:—420 males