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The Registrar General estimates the population as, Civilian
67,690, and total as 67,740. The total figure 67,740 includes persons
normally resident in Acton who are in the Military Services, and
for statistical purposes I have based my calculations upon the civilian
figure alone. A comparability factor has also been given for Acton
and this factor is used to calculate the Corrected Death Rate.
Until 1939 the population had for many years shown small
change but there has been a change in the proportion of the constituent
members of the population. During the period 1939 to
1945 a large number of persons came from Eire to work in this
Borough and have remained; also there is an obvious settlement
taking place of persons from Europe, and quite a number of persons
of Polish nationality are establishing themselves, obtaining employment
either here or outside this area.
The Crude Death Rate is 10.8 and the Corrected Death Rate
is 10.9, as compared with 9.4 for 1948.
The Birth Rate is 15.4 as compared with 16.7 per 1,000 of the
Civilian Population for 1948.
Infantile Mortality Rate is 23.04 as compared with 24.4 in
1948, and for England & Wales is 32; County Boroughs and large
towns (including London) is 37.0
There is no record of any child under the age of 2 years having
succumbed to Gastro-Enteritis,.
Infectious Diseases and other matters of interest I have dealt
with in the body of the report.
During, 1948 a scheme was designed to come into force in
January 1949 for the Borough to be re-organised into 8 wards.
Each ward elected three Councillors to serve on the Council and
an Alderman was to represent each ward. The statistics are based
on the new ward boundaries.