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The following table is a summary of the vital and other
statistics for the year 1926.
Population (Census 1921) 61,299
Population (estimated 1926) 63,040
Area of Borough .... 2,305 acres.
Assessable Value (district rate) £516,616.
Net produce of a Penny Rate £2,192.
Birth-rate 17.4 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Death-rate (all causes) 10.4 ,, ,, ,,
Tubercular Death-rate 1.04 ,, ,, ,,
Death-rate from Pulmonary Tuberculosis
9 ,, ,, ,,
Cancer death-rate 1.25 ,, ,, ,,
Infantile Mortality 55 per 1000 births.
POPULATION.
The Registrar General estimates the population at the end
of June 1926 to be 63„040, a decrease of 70 on the population of
1925. At the Census which was taken on June 19th, 1921, the
actual number enumerated 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 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 1,040.
In a memorandum, the Registrar General states that the
estimate of population as at June 30th, 1926 is supplied for use
in connection with the vital statistics of 1926. It has been
derived from the 1921 Census population (corrected where
necessary to give a closer approximation to the resident
population of the year as described in the Registrar General's
Statistical Review for 1921) after allowance for the births, deaths
and migration which occurred between the census date and June
30th, 1926.
In the absence of definite information regarding migration
between localities, the allowance made for this element of the
movement is necessarily an approximate one. The method
adopted has been applied impartially to all areas in the country
and it is believed that for the majority of areas the resulting
populations may be accepted as sufficiently accurate for the
purposes they are intended to serve.
It is to be observed, however, that the basis of estimation
has been modified from time to time in the light of accumulated