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For statistical purposes, in the following pages the "Registration" District
is referred to when speaking of the "City."
This consists of two sub-districts, together containing a population of
at the middle of 1905, calculated on the last Census Returns:—
*St. Botolph 7,853
†St. Sepulchre and Allhallows 14,572
Total 22,425
The Night population, therefore, of the City of London Registration District
at the middle of 1905 is taken at 22,425, and it is upon this figure that
all vital statistics in this Report have been calculated.
The Day population at the middle of 1905 was estimated at 369,380 ‡
persons.
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 1905, 302 births were registered in the City. The annual
birth rate was at the rate of 13.4 per 1,000 persons of all ages, compared with
a quinquennial mean rate of 13.9 per 1,000. The birth rates last year in the
Sub-Districts were—
St. Botolph 17.8 per 1,000.
St. Sepulchre and Allhallows 11.5 „
In the Metropolis the birth rate in 1905 was 27.1 per 1,000, being the
lowest hitherto recorded therein.
This decline in the birth rate has been in operation since 1871 or 1872,
and is common to nearly all European countries.
* 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 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 Kegistration 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.
‡ This figure is based upon the assumption that the number of persons residing, occupied or employed
within the City during the active hours of the day has increased at the same rate since the last Day Census in
1891 that it did between that and the previous Day Census in 1881.