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Hampstead 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead, Metropolitan Borough of]
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13
POPULATION.
The population of Hampstead at the middle of 1913 was estimated
by the Registrar-General to be 86,346.
The Registrar-General's estimate has been adopted in this Report,
and it forms the basis upon which the various rates have been calculated.
A method of calculation, however, applicable to many localities
cannot take cognisance of special factors such as the railway widening
that has been in progress for many months past in the Adelaide and
Priory Wards. In the former Ward over 20 houses, and in the latter
over 50 houses were pulled down. The last census showed that in
these two Wards the population was decreasing, and the demolitions
referred to have assisted further in their depopulation.
It is inevitable that there should be some degree of error in any
estimate of a population, especially towards the end of a decade.
The following is an approximate estimate of the population of each Ward at the middle of 1913:—
| Ward 1 (Town) | 14250 |
| „ 2 (Belsize) | 14000 |
| „ 3 (Adelaide) | 9780 |
| „ 4 (Central) | 9996 |
| „ 5 (West End) | 13050 |
| „ 6 (Kilburn) | 15200 |
| „ 7 (Priory) | 10070 |
The following statistics relating to the condition of the population
of Hampstead with regard to Marriage, Age and Sex arc extracted from
the Census returns published in 1913:—