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1927
5
Deaths from:—
Measles (all ages) 0
Whooping Cough (all ages) 2
Diarrhoea (under 2 years) 7
POPULATION.
The Registrar General estimates the population at the end
of June 1927 to be 63,750, an increase of 710 on the estimated
population of 1926. The estimate of 1926 was 70 less than that
of 1925; so that the population of 1927 is estimated to be 640
more than that of 1925.
At the Census of 1921 the population of the district was
61,299. The Census of 1921 was not taken as usual in April, but
was postponed to June 19th. Owing to the abnormally fine weather
of that year, some holiday movement was already in progress in
June, and the Registrar General 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 therefore 1750.
The longer the interval which has elapsed since the Census
was taken, the less reliable, of course, are the estimates of a
population. As a rule the estimates of the Registrar General are
more correct than the local estimates. This may seem surprising.
The intimate knowledge of local facts should make the local
estimates more correct than those of the Registrar General, but
the general tendancy of all local estimates of population is towards
an over-estimation of the number.
Between the autumn of 1921 and the autumn of 1927 there
was an increase of 3,684 in the number of Parliamentary electors.
On the former date there were 30,350, and on the latter, 34,034.
The number of new dwelling houses erected and occupied
between June 30th 1926 and June 30th 1927 is not available, but
in that period 476 new houses were brought into rating as well
as 22 flats and 9 houses with shops.
POOR 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 distributed in the Parish of Acton by
the Guardians during the year ended December 31st, 1927 was
as follows:—
Ordinary Relief £5,962 14 0½d.
Relief to Unemployed £444 6 3d.
£6407 0 3½d.