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VITAL STATISTICS OF THE WARDS.
Particular interest attaches to the Ward Vital Statistics this year
as it is the last in which the old ward divisional areas appear. The
seven wards into which for 15 years the district has been divided are
now replaced by eleven wards, and with them the old ward boundaries
disappear. The changing character of the respective ward populations
in so rapidly-developing a district as Willesden reduces the reliability
of the figures the further removed from the census are the estimates on
which they are based. For the same reason the vital statistics of the
new wards must necessarily be the crudest approximations until the
census returns of 1911 enable more accurate data to be used in the
calculation of the ward rates.
It is satisfactory to note that the old ward divisions have been
eclipsed at a time when their vital statistics exhibit their health conditions
in a most satisfactory light. They disappear with a record it
is improbable they would greatly have improved upon.