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6 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
It is probable, however, that this calculation gives a population
somewhat in excess of the actual population, as the number
of persons per rated hereditament may have decreased. The
method adopted, in my opinion, gives the closest approximation to
the actual population.
The population for the purposes of the Equalisation of Rates
Act was estimated in 1906 as 296,020, in 1907, 308,663, in 1908,
318,603, and in 1909, 327,322, these populations being calculated
from the number of rated houses.
Table I. shows the population of each Ward and the number
of rated hereditaments in 1901, the number of hereditaments in
the middle of 1909 and the estimated population.
TABLE I.
Ward.
Census
Population,
1901.
Rated
Hereditaments,
1901.
Rated
Hereditaments,
1909
Estimated
Population,
1909.
Increase
since 1901.
Clapham North..
28,772
5,081
5,680
32,150
3,378
,, South..
22,589
4,115
6,680
36,600
14,011
Putney
24,139
4,553
5,960
31,590
7,451
Streatham
33,624
6,759
11,220
55,760
22,136
Balham
38,034
7,204
9,860
51,960
13,926
Tooting
16,473
3,341
6,930
34,170
17,697
Southfield
21,924
3,963
7,280
40,250
18,326
Fairfield
18,520
3,896
4,060
19,240
720
Springfield
27,959
4,384
6,800
43,180
16,221
Whole Borough
232,034
43,296
64,470
344,900
113,866
Table II. shows the population of each sub-district, compared
with the Census population, uncorrected and corrected for
Institutions.