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(a) Vital Statistics.
POPULATION.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the population to the
middle of 1935 is 62,490 as against 62,926 for the year 1934 and
the Census Return in 1931 of 62,617. This fall in the estimate
of population—actually a decrease of 436 when compared with
1934 and 127 less than the Census Return—is a little difficult
to understand.
The excess of births over deaths during the immediate
preceding five years was 854. True it is that a certain migration
of population has taken place during that period, due largely to
the re-housing of people by the Council on the Syon Lane Estate
situated in the neighbouring Borough of Heston and Isleworth.
The number of houses erected on these estates is 428 and,
taking the high average figure of 5.5 persons per house, this
would mean a decrease in the population figure of approximately
2,354.
Against this, however, 524 new houses and flats were
erected within the Borough by private enterprise and, taking
an average of 5 persons per house, this would mean some 2,620
people residing therein. Of these it is very reasonable to suppose
that approximately 90 per cent. (or 2,358) represent new
population, thus off-setting the movement of people to the
neighbouring Borough of Heston and Isleworth.
The demolition of houses by reason of the operation of the
Housing Act, 1930. does not affect the question as the persons
displaced were rehoused by the Council either within the
Borough or on the Syon Lane Estate.