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POPULATION.
CHE Census returns of 1901 showed that in this District the
average number of inhabitants to each occupied house is as
'near as possible 5.1. Taking this as the basis of calculation, the
population at the middle of last year was estimated to be 15,800, an
increase of 600 over that of the previous year. This increase was
almost equally distributed between the localities of Winchmore Hill,
New Southgate, and Palmers Green and Bowes ; there having been
an increase of 37 occupied houses in Winchmore Hill, 40 in New
Southgate, and 48 in Palmers G reen and Bowes ; whereas in Southgate
there was an increase of only 4.
The population of the four localities which makeup the District
was estimated to be as follows:—Southgate, 4,220 ; New Southgate,
3,790 ; Winchmore Hill, 2,960 ; and Palmers Green and Bowes,
4,830.
BIRTHS—BIRTH-RATE.
During the past year 396 births were registered ; an increase of
21 on the previous year. This gives a birth-rate of 25 per 1,000 of
the population. The average rate for the 10 years, 1892 to 1901 was
25.4.
The birth-rate for England and Wales in 1902 was 28.6, which
is lower than the rate in any other year on record, excepting that in
1901, which was 28.5.
MORTALITY.
General Mortality and Death .Rate.—The number of
deaths registered in the District during the past year (excluding seven
which occurred at the Metropolitan Asylum Board Hospital at
Winchmore Hill) was 159. To these must be added four deaths of
" residents " who died in the Edmonton U nion, outside the District,
making a total of 163.
The death-rate, was, therefore 10.3 per 1000 of the population,
an increase of 1 per 1000 on the rate of the preceding year, which
was with that of 1896 the lowest yet recorded in this District. The
average rate for the 10 years, 1892 to 1901, was 11.8.
The death-rate for England and Wales last year was 16.3, which