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In the Annual Report for the year 1936 a table was printed
showing the ages in groups and the marital condition of the population
of the District as ascertained at the 1931 Census.
The number of children in the District under 14 years of age
was found to be 260 per 1,000 total population and the corresponding
figure for the whole of the Administrative County was 228 per ] ,000.
The number of persons aged 15 to 44 years in Hornchurch represented
501 per 1,000 total population as compared with 471 per
1,000 in the Administrative County.
These figures show that the population of Hornchurch contains
a large number of young people and also tend to explain the high
birth rate.
Births.
The number of births registered in the District during the year
was 1,077.

The percentage of illegitimate births to the total registered
was 2.4.
The birth rate calculated on a population of 72,010 is 19.6 per
thousand estimated population.

Deaths.
There were 393 deaths registered in the District during the year,
this number including 69 belonging to other Districts which have,
therefore, been subtracted.
165 males and 131 females whose residence was in Hornchurch
died elsewhere and these deaths are added as inward transfers making
a nett total of 620.