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TOOTING.
population As stated in my report for the preceding year,
the Estimated Population is a figure presenting
the greatest difficulties in calculating, in view of the many
institutions in the district, containing large and constantly
changing occupants, and of the great number of houses
being erected. The census enumeration now being
carried out will afford more accurate figures than can
ever be arrived at by a simple estimate, but time will
not permit of waiting for those figures as a basis of
calculation, and I therefore again adopt the round number
of 10,000 to represent the population during the year
1900. There is strong reason, however, to believe that
this is far below the actual figures as indicated by the
yearly increasing birth-rate.
Births & Birth Rate. The births registered during the year
numbered 478, of these, 230 were males and
242 females, producing a birth-rate equal to 47.8 per 1,000
of the population, an increase of 10.1 per 1,000 upon the
previous year. This, however, I have already suggested
is probably attributable to too low an estimate of the
population.
Deaths & Death Rate. The deaths actually registered in the parish
during the year numbered 452, being 224
of males and 228 females. This, however, includes the
deaths of "non-residents" in the various public institutions
located in the parish and which numbered 228,
thereby reducing the number of deaths of "residents'' in
the parish to 2.4. To produce the corrected death-rate,
however, to the latter must be added the 21 deaths of
"residents'' occurring in outlying institutions within the
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