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ness. The birth rate is another means of testing
the growth of the population; this year it is 31.14
per 1,000, which is about the annual rate for the
last few years, and is about 0.2 per cent, lower than
at the time of the census. There is another way in
which the population may be estimated and which is
adopted and recommended by some statisticians, and
that is by taking the growth that is already known
and calculating the rate of increase by logarithms.
In my Report for 1892 I showed that I considered
such an estimate would be very misleading, as it
would indicate that at the census of 1901 the population
would be 130,000.
From a return received from the Clerk to the
Board of Guardians, it appears that there are 160
inmates of the house belonging to Willesden: males,
53; females, 92 ; children, 15; there were also 94
persons in lunatic asylums : males, 38; females, 56.
These numbers added to the population give a total
of 79,514.