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Area, Population and Rateable Value.
Area, 3,881 acres; Population, 33,061; Rateable Value,
£268,965.
Population.
The estimated population of the District up to the middle
of 1908 is 33,061.
For statistical purposes it is my usual practice to estimate
the population of the District for the year under review. The
estimate may be made in many ways, but the method which
has always been adopted by me is to obtain the number of inhabited
houses to the middle of the year in review, from the
rate books, and multiply this by the number of the persons per
occupied house, as demonstrated by the Census Returns for
the preceding Census Year. This affords a very reliable
means of determining the estimated population, and at the
last Census my figures differed from those actually found by
the statutory decennial enumeration of the people by only
270 persons.
It is of interest also to review the steady growth ot the
District for the past 18 years, and for this purpose, I give the
population as has been estimated by me from year to year;
and also the population of the various sections of Beckenham
since the practice has been adopted of dividing the District
into Ward areas.