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SECTION VIII.—GENERAL STATISTICS.

Population.
The Registrar General estimates the population of the Borough at the middle
of the year as 145,520, a decrease of 680 on the previous year. Each year since
1931 he has shown a decrease on the previous year. It is difficult to believe that
this is correct because there is much new building going on in the Borough and it
is definitely known that many of the new occupiers come from outside the Borough,
and in addition, each year, there is a natural increase in the population. As the
figures of the Registrar General are used generally throughout the country they
are the only safe basis for comparison and so his total has been used in calculating
rates for the purposes of this report. It should be noted, also, that this figure
includes non-civilians and that the pre-war practice in this respect was returned to
from the beginning of 1932. In estimating the population of the wards of the
Borough regard has been had to such information as is available from the records of
the Housing Department so far as occupants of new Council houses are concerned,
and of the records of the Treasurer's Department when advances have been made
under the Small Dwellings Acquisition Acts. The estimated population of each of
the wards of the Borough at the middle of 1934, is shown in the following Table
No. 61.