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Annual Report of the London County Council, 1913.
February, 1910 (2,747), when the maximum number was recorded. It should be noted, moreover, that
the reduction in the number of homeless persons has been accompanied by a reduction in the numbers
of inmates of common lodging houses and casual wards to the extent of more than 1,000 persons since
1910. Both reports have been reprinted in Chapter XXXII.a of this report.
On pages 74 to 76 there is reference to the preliminary arrangements made for the treatment of
tuberculosis under the National Insurance Act. The complete scheme was only in draft at the end
of the year and the action taken subsequently does not come within the period covered by this report.
Details of the work carried out under the Midwives Act, 1902, will be found on
pages 78 to 85. Towards the end of the year the Council transferred the work of the chemical
department to the public health department, together with the staff, excepting that portion engaged
exclusively upon gas testing and photography. Details of tlie work performed by this branch of the
department will be found on pages 85 to 86,
A.—Vital Statistics.
Population.

Movement of
the London
population in
recent years.
Movement of the London population in recent years.—The marked change in the age-constitution
of the London population during the past twenty years was commented upon in the second
London life-table (see Appendix III., Annual Report of County Medical Officer, 1912, p. 106), where
it is suggested that the change is due mainly to the outward movement of the population over
the county boundary, and, so far as the earlier ages are concerned, to the diminution in the birthrate
since the eighties. Local migration is, however, the more important factor, since variations in the
number of births are larselv the result of the local movement of population.