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It is difficult to see how, under any conceivable view of these facts,
they may be regarded as satisfactory. They raise an intricate series of
problems which are of the most vital interest to the well-being of the
State. They are so important that their full investigation is imperatively
called for, and they demand an enquiry which would probably
best be conducted in the form of a Royal Commission.
Having regard to the fact that a census will be taken during 1911,
and that the data at a period so remote from the last census are in a
District such as Willesden quite untrustworthy, I have deferred giving
the Birth rate this year on the estimated number of women at the
procreative age period.
The Ward Birth rates are those of the Wards which came into
being in April, 1910. They must be accepted as crude approximations
the data on which they are estimated being unsupported in many
instances by any censal facts whatever.