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POPULATION.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the population of the Borough on 30th June.
1929, is 99,710. This figure is 2,490 less than the corresponding figure for 1928 and
includes the inmates of the Holborn Institution in Wenlock Ward, numbering approximately
1,000, who are not regarded for statistical purposes as belonging to Shoreditch.

The density of the population in the Borough as a whole is 150 per acre.
* Exclusive of water.
It will be seen from the table on page 5 that the Registrar-General's estimate
of the population of the Borough has varied considerably since the census year 1921.
The highest since the census was for the years 1925 and 1926, when the estimated midyear
population was 107,300. Since 1926 the estimate has fallen each year.
For the year under consideration the figure given is 99,710. Between mid-1926
and mid-1929 the births exceeded the deaths by 2,385. It is open to doubt whether
the population of the Borough has in fact decreased by 7,590 during this period..
It appears probable either that the population was over estimated a few years
ago, or that it has been under-estimated for the years 1928 and 1929.
In reading statistical tables it should be remembered that any under estimate
has the effect of increasing unduly those rates which are expressed as per 1,000 of the
population, while over-estimation has the opposite effect.
Further information upon the subject of the population, area, number of inhabited
houses, and rateable value are contained in the Tables on pages 2 and 53.