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POPULATION.
The Census was taken on the 31st of March, 1901,
and shewed that the population of the district was 22,468,
an increase of 2,093 since 1891. This population was
accommodated in 3,811 inhabited houses, which gives an
average of 5.89 persons per house. I estimate that the
population in the middle of the year would be 22,822, and it
is upon these figures that my statistics are based. The
area of the District is 770 acres and the density of population
29.61 per acre.
BIRTH RATE.
The births during the year numbered 476, of which
232 were males and 244 females. This gives a birth rate
of 20.8 per 1,000.
DEATH RATE.
The number of deaths registered in the Urban District
of Penge during the twelve months was 250, and to
these have to be added 37 which occurred in Public
Institutions outside the district. The death rate for the
year worked out on these figures is 10.9 per 1,000 for
deaths registered in the district, but, with the number of
deaths in Public Institutions added, the corrected death
rate for the year is 12.5 per 1,000. Of these deaths 67
were under 1 year of age, giving an Infantile Mortality
rate of 14075 per 1,000 of births registered.
Eighty-five of the deaths occurred in children under
5 years of age, this being a mortality of 29.6 per cent, of
the total number of deaths registered.