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Population (68,500).
I have estimated the population of this Borough,
at the middle of the year, to be 68,500, and on this
figure the vital statistics and different rates applying
to this Report have been calculated. Anv error in
this estimate is rather, perhaps, one of under-estimating
the number of inhabitants of the Borough
than over-estimating it.
The area of the Borough is 2,947 acres (with a
density of population of about 23.2 to the acre), a rateable
value, in May last, of £518,968, and an assessable
value of £497,850. The general physical features
and sanitary conditions continue as heretofore, and
are admitted to be excellent in all material respects.
The natural increase of our population, viz., the excess
of births over deaths, was 633.
New Buildings, etc.
The number of inhabited houses in the middle of
the vear is estimated at 13,300, being 400 in excess of
the number given for the same period of 1912.
The rate of progress in the erection of new houses
continues, year by year, to be very nearlv even. During
the past year 312 were passed for occupation (139
being situated in that part of the Borough north of
the Uxbridge Road, and 173 in the part south of the
main road) against 317 in 1912. These numbers do
not include alterations to existing buildings, such as
conversions into flats, but only four of the new houses
were built and designed for such, and these for two
families. Conversions of any existing premises for
flat accommodation are not sanctioned unless all sanitary
arrangements are adequately and sufficiently provided
for. An actual revival in the letting of empty
dwellings took place, and the number of unoccupied
houses of all classes, especially of the smaller kind, is