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Acton 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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POPULATION.
Since the last annual report was issued, the preliminary
results of the Census enumeration of 1911 have been
published. At the Census of 1911, the population of Acton
was 57,523. As the population is calculated to the middle of
the year, the estimated population at the end of June was 58,048.
Although the rate of increase in Acton in the decennium
1901-1911 was almost equal to that of the decenium 1891-1901,
from a knowledge of the local conditions, it may be stated
that the increase was not uniform throughout the ten years,
If the rate of increase which obtained in the decennium
1891-1901 had been maintained, the population at the census
of 1911 would have been 60,222.
If the Registrar General's method of estimating the population is adopted, the estimated population at the end of June in each year would have been as follows: —
| 1901 | 38,144 |
| 1902 | 39,785 |
| 1903 | 41,490 |
| 1904 | 43,333 |
| 1905 | 45,124 |
| 1906 | 47,058 |
| 1907 | 49,076 |
| 1908 | 51,180 |
| 1909 | 53,374 |
| 1910 | 55,662 |
| 1911 | 58,048 |
In former annual reports it was pointed out that in Acton
this method would give unreliable results. Soon after the