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VITAL STATISTICS.
Area. The area of the Borough is 3,048 acres, and of this the
Croydon Aerodrome absorbs about 280 acres and the Croydon Sewage
Works about 673 acres.
Population. The Registrar-General's estimate of the resident
population for the mid-year 1937 is 30,590, and the vital statistics in
this report are based on that figure. An increase of 700 is shown over
the figure for 1936, when the population for that year was estimated at 29,890
In 1915 there were 3,389 occupied houses, with an average of 4.0
persons per house.
In 1937 there were 8,877 occupied houses, distributed as follows: —
Beddington: —
North Ward 2309
Central Ward 1356
South Ward ... 1587
5252
Wallington: —
NorthWard 1420
Central Ward 1350
South Ward 855
3625
Total 8877
The average number of persons per house was 3.4.
The number of persons in the Beddington Royal Female
Orphanage, which is the only large residential institution in the district,
was 132.
Births,(a) Live Births.—The Registrar-General returns the
number of births registered during 1937 as 395, of which 200 were
males and 195 were females. This gives a live birth rate of 12.91 per
1,000 total population, compared with 13.5 in 1936 and 14.9 for England
and Wales. Sixteen of the births were illegitimate, 10 males and 6
females.
(b) Stillbirths.—The number of stillborn children registered in
1937 was 16 of which 9 were males and 7 were females. This gives a
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