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POPULATION.
The population of the Borough for 1915, as estimated by the Registrar-General,
was 100,260, which is lower than that in 1914 by 12,632 and 17,584 below that of
the census year 1911.
The number given above may be taken to be distributed as follows: All
Souls, 25,002 ; St. Mary, 27,342; Christ Church, 30,901; St. John, 17,015.
With regard to all of these figures it should be noted that estimation of
population, difficult at all times, is at present for reasons into which it is unnecessary
to enter, considerably more difficult, and in order to arrive at the figure given, the
Registrar-General has been driven to adopt a method quite different from that
usually employed.
With a few exceptions, all the rates referred to later, are calculated on the
figure given, viz,: 100,260, which being so much lower than those for previous years
will make death and other rates appear very much higher.
BIRTHS.
Registration. During 1915, 1,852 births were registered. Of these, 944 were
boys and 908 girls. The total figure for 1914 was 2,128 and the boys numbered
1,095 and the girls 1,033.
The birth rate for the Borough and the registration districts was as follows :
The Borough, 16.2; All Souls, 13.3 ; St. Mary, 11.2: Christ Church, 22.9; St.
John, 18*6.
Notifications (Notification of Births' Act, 1907).—The births notified numbered
3,645. The figure for 1914 was 3,901.
The chief sources of notifications were Parents : 212. Doctors : 375. Midwives
: 843. Hospitals : 2,215.
Of the total births notified, 136 referred to still births (83 males and 53 females);
1,825 took place at Queen Charlotte's Hospital: 369 at Middlesex Hospital; 2 at
the Samaritan Hospital and 2,215 were born at home. A number of those notified
(1,793), belonged to other boroughs.
DEATHS AND DEATH RATES.
After making allowance for deaths occurring outside the Borough boundaries
and excluding those which, though registered here, belonged to other districts, the
total deaths amounted to 1,697.
The death rate per 1,000 for the year, calculated on this figure and the population
figure provided by the Registrar-General was 17.8. Comparison with the rate for
1914 and other years is impossible since these were " corrected " figures.
The rates in the registration sub-districts were : All Souls, 13.6 ; St. Mary, 15.4;
Christ Church, 20.6 ; St. John, 15.2.