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Population.—The Registrar General estimates the population
at the end of June 1924, to be 62,980, an increase of 260.
It is probable that this estimate is below the actual number
of inhabitants in the district, but the figure given by the Registrar
General has been retained, because it is the figure used for comparative
purposes in the different returns issued by the General
Register Office.
There was an increase of 605 in the number of Parliamentary
electors on the registers in the Autumn of 1924, as compared with
the same electoral list of 1923.
The numbers in 1924 were as follows:—
Men. Women. Total.
17,408 14,591 31,999
The increase in the total number of Parliamentary electors
is shown in the following table:—
1921. 30,350.
1922. 30,425.
1923. 31,394.
1924 31,999.
It is possible that an increase in the number of persons living
at a certain age-period may be disproportionate to the increase in the
rest of the population. It may even occur that the increase in the
number of persons living in an age-group may be greater than the
total increase in the population of a district. A disproportionate
increase at different age-periods would occur with a falling birth-rate
and with emigration and immigration.
Both a falling birth-rate and migration in and out of the
district are in operation, but not to such an extent as to limit the
increase of population to one age-period.
During the year ending December 31st, 1924, 200 new
dwelling houses were completed and occupied.
At the Census which was taken on June 19th, 1921, the actual
number enumerated in the district was 61,299. Owing to the
abnormally fine weather in the summer of that year, some holiday
movement was already in progress, and the Registrar General from
the figures at his disposal made certain adjustments in the population
of certain districts. The adjusted figure for Acton was 62,000.
The estimated increase in the population since the Census is less
than a thousand inhabitants, though in the 3 years 1922, 1923 and
1924, 406 new houses have been completed and occupied.
Outdoor Relief.—I am indebted to Mr. Harmsworth, the
Clerk of the Guardians, for the figures relating to Poor Law Relief.
The amount of out-door relief given by the Guardians for the parish
of Acton was:—