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STATISTICS.
Population.—The Registrar-General has given the usual
estimate of the population of the Borough at the middle of 1932
as 122,700, showing an increase of 4,800 in the population since
his estimate for the previous year. This estimate of the population
is the figure used to calculate the birth-rates and death-rates that
are contained in this Report.
The details of the census taken in April, 1931, have now been
issued by the Registrar-General, the figures for Ealing appearing
in the Census Report (Part I) devoted to the County of Middlesex.
The enumerated population of the Borough at the time of the
Census is shown to be 117,707, compared with 90,433 on the occasion
of the Census taken in 1921. This latter figure is the amended
figure quoted by the Registrar-General in his present report,
and has been arrived at by adding together the respective populations
of Ealing, Hanwell, Greenford, and that part of Northolt
now within the Borough.
The Census returns show that there has been an increase of
population during the intercensal period of 27,274 persons, which
is equal to an increase of 30.2 per cent. Of this increase 3,733
or 4.5 per cent. was due to the natural increase in the population (i.e.,
the excess of births over deaths), the remaining 23,541 or 25.7
per cent. being due to the migration of persons into the Borough.
The Census shows Ealing to have the third largest population
in the County of Middlesex, the districts with larger populations
being Willesden and Tottenham.
The Table showing the population of each of the Wards is
particularly interesting in view of the fact that comparisons can
now be made between the present Ward populations and those
at the time of the previous Census. The extension of the Borough
led to alterations in the Wards in every instance except the Grange
Ward, but the comparison is made possible by the RegistrarGeneral
having re-allocated the population of the extended area
according to the new arrangement of Wards that was adopted.