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ANNUAL REPORT.
Area and Population of District.
The Urban District of Chingford comprises 2,809 acres, and
the population was found to be 2,737 at the date of the last
Census, viz., in the year 1891. The estimated population up to
the middle of the year 1898 was about 3,682, or 1.3 inhabitants
per acre. The number of inhabited houses had increased from
534 in 1891 to 722 in 1898. Judging from the number of new
houses that have been built since the last Census year, the
population has not increased so rapidly during the present decade
as it did in the previous one. On the other hand, there is very
good reason for believing that a considerable number of new
houses are likely to spring up in Chingford before the next
Census takes place in the year 1901.
Births.
Ninety-one births were registered in the district during the
past year, comprising 45 male and 46 female children, and giving
an annual birth-rate of 24.4 per 1,000, against 23.1 per 1,000 in
the previous year, and 25.2 per 1,000 in 1896. The average
annual birth-rate of the past four years, viz., 24.6 per 1,000, is
almost identical with the birth-rate of 1898.
In the last annual report of the Registrar General of
Births, Deaths and Marriages, it appears that the average annual
birth-rate during the decennium 1886-95 was 31.0 per 1,000 for
all England, and 32.1 per 1,000 for the Registration County of
Essex. It is manifest, therefore, that the annual birth-rate in
Chingford is habitually much below the average birth-rate of the
county in which it is situated.