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There is only one registration district in the City.
The estimated population of the City, for the year 1937, is 8,980.
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 1937, 377 live births were registered in the City, 362 of which,
however, did not belong thereto. To the remaining 15 must be added the births of 40
children born to citizens temporarily residing outside the City boundary.
The number of births, therefore, on which the rate should be calculated is 55. There
were three still births. The annual birth-rate was 6.1 per 1,000 persons of all ages, compared
with a quinquennial mean rate of 7.4 per 1,000. In the Metropolis the birth-rate in
1937 was 13.3 per 1,000.
Mortality.—During the year under review, 551 deaths were registered in the District,
including 506 persons dying in the City, but not belonging thereto. Deducting these
latter, 45 deaths remain, to which must be added those of 56 persons who died in outside
districts, where they were registered ; the total, therefore, on which the City death-rate
is calculated is 101. See table, p. 9, for details. The death-rate for 1937 was 11.2 per
1,000 per annum of the population (the previous year being 11.4), whilst that for the whole
of the Metropolis was 12-3.
Deaths from Violence.—Of the City deaths, 3.0 per cent. were caused by injuries or
violence, as compared with 9.7 in 1935 and 6.7 in 1936. This is 3.8 below the average for
the previous five years.

The death.rate from zymotic disease per 1,000 of the population was 0.1.
The deaths from Phthisis correspond to a rate of 0.8 per 1,000 of the population, as
compared with .80 in the Metropolis.
Infantile Mortality.—The deaths of children under one year of age were at the rate of
18 per 1,000 births, as against 60 for the whole of London.