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Population.
A dozen private nursing homes supply not only
the needs of Ealing but help to meet the demand of
other districts.
There are no real slums in the district, although there
are three small islets of houses of a low standard some
of which have been reduced by the occupiers to slumlike
conditions by overcrowding or mal-treatment.
The amount of Poor Law relief distributed in the
area during the year, according to the Clerk to the
Board of Guardians, was £899 19s. 2d.
The Central Aid Society and the Ealing Philanthropic
Institution do good work in the district by rendering
assistance in many needy cases.
One great need of the district is a well organized
nursing service by which nursing aid could be provided
to the poorer inhabitants. Such a nursing service
would not only be the means of relieving a great amount
of suffering, but would reduce to a large extent the
pressure on the general hospitals.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Population.
The population of the Borough for the middle of 1919,
as estimated by the Registrar General, was 76,265 for
calculating the birth-rate, and 73,212 for calculating
the death-rate.
It is difficult to give even an approximate estimate
of the population, so many factors having to be considered
in making a correct estimate. The population
has not been increasing to the same extent as it was
before the war, houses have not been built to house