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Natural Increase.—The excess of births over deaths was 426,
or 1.8 per 1,000 of the population. A comparison with previous
years is given below.
Immigration is playing a larger part than natural increase in
the rapid increase of population. In the nature of things this is
a difficult factor to estimate with any accuracy and in time leads to
deductions based on total population being only approximate.
In such a rapidly growing district, a five-yearly census is most
necessary if statistics are to be reasonably accurate.