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Annual Report for 1921.
(I) General Statistics.
The population of the district at the Census of 1911
was 27,750, viz.:—14,143 males and 13,607 females.
On the 19/20th June, 1921, another Census was taken,
and the population was found to be 31,568, viz.:—
16,149 males and 15,419 females. This is an increase
in the 10 years of 2,006 males, and 1,812 females, a total
of 3,818. As, however, the Registrar-General had some
reason to think that the commencement of the holiday
season had some effect on the figures, he has furnished
an estimate of the population at the middle of the year,
which differs somewhat from the Census result, and it is
this figure, 32,060, which has been utilised for the
calculation of the birth and death rates, etc.
The number of inhabited houses and the number of
separate occupiers has not yet been published, but the
number of inhabited houses at the end of the year was
approximately 5,850.
The Rateable Value of the District was £202,399,
and the product of a penny rate £805. The area of the
District is 3,859 acres.
(II) Vital Statistics.
Births.
717 births were registered in the District, viz.:—
378 males and 339 females. The net number of births
belonging to the District was, Legitimate—males 378,
females 342, a total of 720; Illegitimate, males 10,
females 5, a total of 15, making a total altogether of 735.