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POPULATION.
The undermentioned figures are extracted from the Preliminary Report of
the Registrar-General on the Census of England and Wales, 1921:—
City of London (Not including the Temple)
Area,
Statute
Acres.
661
Inhabited Houses.
Population.
1911.
2,784
1921.
2,398
1911.
19,657
1921.
13,527
These figures represent the population on the nights of the 3rd April, 1911,
and the 19th June, 1921.

There is only one registration district in the City.
The estimated population of the City for the year 1924 is 13,330.
The day Census taken in 1911 showed that the day population was 364,061
persons, and also that 1,077,155 persons and 94,095 vehicles entered and left the
City on the day the count was taken.
BIRTHS.
During the year 1924, 413 births were registered in the City, 346 of which,
however, did not belong thereto. To the remaining 67 must be added the births
of 27 children born to citizens temporarily residing outside the City boundary.
The number of births, therefore, on which the rate should be calculated is 94.
The annual birth-rate was 7.1 per 1,000 persons of all ages, compared with a
quinquennial mean rate of 10 6 per 1,000. In the Metropolis the birth-rate in 1924
was 18 7 per 1,000.
MORTALITY.
During the year under review, 719 deaths were registered in the District,
including 656 persons dying in the City, but not belonging thereto. See Table,
p. 11, for details. Deducting these latter, 63 deaths remain, to which must be
added those of 88 persons who died in Institutions in outside districts, where they
were registered ; the total, therefore, on which the City death-rate is calculated is
151. The death-rate for 1924 was 11.3 per 1,000 per annum of the population (the
previous year being 1.15), whilst that for the whole of the Metropolis was 12.1.
DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE.—Of the City deaths, 5.3 per cent, were caused
by injuries or violence, as compared with 3.2 in 1922 and 5.8 in 1923. This is 13
below the average for the previous five years.