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SUMMARY OF REPORT FOR 1924.
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 Higligate in the north, and averages about a mile in width.
Population (1921 Census), 211,366.
Population (1924). Total, 214,600.
„ Civilian, 214,300.
Number of persons per acre, 80.
Number of inhabited houses (1921 Census), 24,660.
Number of births, 4,112; birth.rate, 18.8 per 1,000 of population.
Number of deaths, 2,848; death.rate, 13 per 1,000 of population.
Excess of births over deaths, 1,264.
Infantile mortality, 74 per 1,000 births.
Maternal mortality (deaths of women from causes associated with child.birth),
16.
Maternal death.rate, 3.9 per 1000 births.
Tuberculosis (all forms), death.rate l.2 per 1,000 of population.
Rateable value, £1,821,364.
Sum produced by a penny rate, £7,489.
Total rainfall, 33.08 inches.