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report
OF THE
Medical Officer of Health
FOR THE YEAR 1908.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Population—The estimated population for the year 1908
amounted to 156,627, the figure adopted by the RegistrarGeneral.
In the annual report for 1907 we were enabled to
estimate the population for that year from the number of
occupied houses shown upon the rate books. This information,
together with the factors obtained from the census of 1901,
gave an estimated population, in 1907, of 155,800 compared
with 152,532, the figure adopted by the Registrar-General for
the same period, showing a difference of over 3,000. Taking
into consideration the fact that building operations have been
to a very large extent suspended during the past twelve months,
there is reason to believe the estimated population for the year