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very large, the extent of which may be demonstrated by the fact
that the amount of the loans under the Housing and Small Dwellings
Acquisition Acts at the end of 1926 amounted to £966,934.
This estimate has a detrimental effect on all the vital statistics,
in that they appear larger than they really should be owing to being
based on a smaller population. This however cannot be avoided in
intercensal periods as the figures throughout the Country must lie
taken on a uniform basis, and the fact that our housing activities
are producing a large influx of population, does not appear in the
figures supplied to us by the Registrar-General which are based on
a definite mathematical basis used uniformly.
The death-rate population excludes all non-civilian males
whether serving at home or abroad; whilst the birth-rate (aivl
marriage-rate) population includes all the elements of the population
contributing to the birth and marriage rates and may he
represented by : —
Death-rate population plus the district's proportional share of
all non-civilians enlisted from this country.
Deaths.
The number of deaths registered in the district was 1,090, but
651 of these did not belong to the district, while 61 residents die.J
without the district Thus the number of deaths properly attribut
able to the district was 500. Adopting the basis of the population
estimated by the Registrar-General, the death-rate for the district
comes to 9.75 per 1,000, which is comparable with the following
figures :— 1.1.6 for England and 11.6 for London.
The death-rate corrected by Ihe Registrar-General's factor of
.931 is 9.08.
Births.
The total number of births registered during the year was
101.0, but 158 of these did not belong to this district, while 51
births properly belonging to this district occurred outside the
district. The nett number of births thus attributable to the dis-