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POPULATION.
The Registrar-General's estimate of population for 1934 was
53,755, and 1 have used this figure to calculate the birth and death
rates for the year. It represents a. decrease of 455 in the population
from> that of 1933, which was 54,210. As the number of births and
deaths occurring during the year was almost exactly the same,
and as over eighty new houses have been built, this estimate, if
correct, nnust mean that the number of people who have left the
district during the year exceeds by several hundreds the number
who have come in. I stated in my report last, year that the close
approximation of the birth-rate to the death-rate and the fact that
very little further building of new houses was to be looked for in
the district would seem to indicate that, mo further increase in the
population but rather a decrease was to be looked for, and the
statistics for 1934 lend support to the correctness of this forecast.
BIRTHS.
The number of live births registered during the year was 564,
as compared with 601 for 1933, and 681 for 1932. Of the 564,
285 were male and 279 female. The birth-rate was 10.5 per 1,000
of population, as compared with 11.1 for the previous year, and
12.5 for 1932. It is the lowest rate ever recorded in Wood Green.
The birth-rate for the whole country was 14.8, and for the. 121 great
towns (which include Wood Green) was 14.7, so that in 1934, as for
many years past, the birth-rate in Wood Green was very appreciably
lower than both that of the whole country and that of the great
towns.
12 stillbirths were registered, 6 male and 6 female.
The births registered in the borough were distributed in the
different Wards as follows:—
Alexandra-Bowes 98
Town Hall 279
Noel Park 119
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