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The nett estimated population of the district, and that on which
the various rates that follow are calculated, is therefore 54,606.
The populations of the three Wards estimated in the same way
are:—
Bury Street 19,014
Church Street 16,468
Fore Street 19,124
The Area of the district is 3,890 acres and the density of
population, or the average number of persons per acre, is 14*6.
This figure is calculated on the gross population, which includes the
average populations of the Strand and Edmonton Union Workhouses,
and amounts to 56,758.
The natural increase of the population by the excess of
births over deaths during the year was 1,219.
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered was 1,947, which includes 76
births that took place in the union workhouses, 18 of which were
among parents belonging to Edmonton.
The birth rate per 1,000 inhabitants is therefore 35.6.
Of the total births, 94 or 4.8 per cent., were illegitimate, an
increase of about 1 per cent. on tjie figures for last year.
The district still maintains its high birth rate, notwithstanding
the steady downward tendency in this direction shown by the
country generally, and by many of the large towns. A high
recorded birth rate in a community indicates the presence of a high
proportion of persons in it who are at the most vigorous age periods
of life, age periods, that is to say, in which the death rate is lowest.
Such a community should, therefore, under normal conditions, have