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SUMMARY OF REPORT FOR 1923.
Area of Borough, 2,694 acres.
Area of various open spaces, 373 acres.
Soil and Situation.—Practically the whole of the Borough is situated on London
clay. There are a few superficial deposits of gravel in the south, and lower Bagshot sands in
the extreme north. The Borough is about four miles long, extending from near Oxford
Street in the south to Highgate in the north, and averages about a mile in width.
Population (J 921 Census), 211,366.
Population (1923), 214,400; persons per acre, 80.
Number of inhabited houses, 24,660 (1921 Census).
Births, 4,348; birth-rate, 20'3 per 1,000 of population.
Deaths, 2,585; death-rate, 12.1 per 1,000 of population.
Excess of births over deaths, 1,763.
Infantile mortality, 63 per 1,000 births.
Tuberculosis (all forms), death-rate, 1.3 per 1,000 of population.
Rateable value, £1,817,133.
Sum produced by a penny rate, £7,393.
Total rainfall, 27.03 in.