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This consists of two sub-districts, together containing a population of
at the middle of 1910, calculated on the last Census Returns:—
*St. Botolph 4,964
†St. Sepulchre and Allhallows 12,168
Total 17,132
The Night population, therefore, of the City of London Registration District
at the middle of 1910 is taken at 17,132, and it is upon this figure that
all vital statistics in this Report have been calculated.
The Day population at the middle of 1910 was estimated at 387,755‡
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 count 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 1910, 262 births were registered in the City. The annual
birth rate was at the rate of 15.3 per 1,000 persons of all ages, compared with
a quinquennial mean rate of 14.0 per 1,000. The birth rates last year in the
Sub-Districts were—
St. Botolph 21.4 per 1,000.
St. Sepulchre and Allhallows 12.8 „
In the Metropolis the birth rate in 1910 was 23.9 per 1,000.
This decline in the birth rate has been in operation in this country since
1876, and is common to nearly all European countries.
CENSUS (GREAT BRITAIN) ACT.
This Act, which provides for the enumeration of the population of Great
Britain on the second day of April, 1911, does not materially differ from
previous Census Acts, and as your advisor on sanitary matters, only comes
before me as affording a means of accurately determining birth and death rates.
There is one point, however, to which I would direct attention.
*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 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.
‡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 Lay Census in
1891 that it did between that and the previous Day Census in 1881.