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For statistical purposes, in the following pages the " Registration " District
is referred to when speaking of the "City."
Ihis consists of 114 "civil parishes," divided into three sub-districts,* as
under, viz.:—
†St. Botolph including 17 parishes.
Allhallows Barking ,, 85 „
‡St. Sepulchre ,, 12 „
The populations of the above at the middle of 1903, calculated on the last
Census Returns, were:—
St. Botolph 9,294
Allhallows Barking 8,367
St. Sepulchre 7,297
Total 24,958
The Night population, therefore, of the City of London Registration District
at the middle of 1903, is taken at 24,958, and it is upon this figure that
all vital statistics in this Report have been calculated.
The Day population at the middle of 1903 was estimated at 358,930.
A Day Census taken in May, 1891, proved that 1,186,000 persons and
92,000 vehicles entered and left the City on the day the counting was made.
In 1903 it was ascertained that in the week ending 19th July no less than
347,463 vehicles passed to and from the four City bridges, viz.:—London,
Southwark, Blackfriars and Tower, equivalent to upwards of 18,000,000
vehicles per annum.
BIRTHS.
During the year 1903, 338 births were registered in the City. The annual
birth rate was at the rate of 13.6 per 1,000 persons of all ages, compared with
a quinquennial mean rate of 14.4 per 1,000. The birth rates last year in the
Sub-Districts were—
St. Botolph 18.3 per 1,000
Allhallows 5.9 ,,
St. Sepulchre 16.3 „
In the Metropolis the birth rate in 1903 was 28.4 per 1,000, being the
lowest hitherto recorded therein, and 0.1 below the rate for the year 1902.
This decline in the birth rate has been in operation since 1871 or 1872,
and is common to nearly all European countries.
*On the 1st November, 1903, the sub-district of St. Sepulchre and Allhallows Barking were united and
called St. Sepulchre and Allhallows.
†At the date of the last Census, this District included the "civil parish" of Glasshouse Yard. The parish
was transferred to the Holborn Union by the Local Government Board Order, No. 43156, which came into
operation on 29th September, 1901, and to the Registration of District of Holborn (Finsbury Sub-District) on
1st January, 1902, making the Registration District of London City co-extensive with the Municipal City of
London. All the Registration Districts in London are co-extensive with the Poor Law Parishes or Unions
except the District of Fulham.
‡On the 1st April, 1901, the Middle Temple was transferred from the Strand Sub-District to St. Sepulchre
Sub-District.