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Poor Law Relief.
I am indebted to Mr. F. E. Harmsworth, Local Public Assistance
Officer, for information respecting the amounts paid in money
and kind as out-relief to poor persons within the Parish of Heston
and Islewortih during the years 1928-29-30:—
1928. 1929. 1930.
£4929: 15: 8½ £4373: 11:6 £3947:9:3
VITAL STATISTICS.
Population.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the population for 1929
is (Birth rate) 63,070—(Death rate) 62,240, despite the fact that our
building activities, particularly for the last five years, have been
very large, the extent of which may be demonstrated by the fact that
the amount of the loans to house purchasers under the Housing and
Small Dwellings Acquisition Acts at the end of 193.0 amounted to
£2,902,01:6. This estimate has a considerable 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 be 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 deatlh-rate population excludes all non-civilian males,
whether serving at home or abroad; whilst the birth-rate (and
marriage-rate) population includes all the elements of the population
contributing to the birth and marriage rates, and may be
represented by:—
Death-rate population plus the district's proportional share of
all non-civilians enlisted from this country.
Owing to the comparative nearness of the Census, the Registrar-General's
estimate of the population up to the middle of 1930
was not issued, and the various rates have therefore been worked
out on the last figure supplied by him for 1929. In addition, for
the purpose of comparison, and to show to some extent how the
population figure affects the birth and death rates, they have also
been worked out on an estimated population figure of 80,000.