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recreation grounds are under the control of the Council;
while the River Thames flows along the whole of the
southern boundary; a distance of nearly two-and-a-half
miles.
A considerable area of the district is under cultivation,
mainly for horticultural purposes, and the principal
occupations of the working class section of the community
are out-door ones.
VITAL STATISTICS.
In 1910 I estimated the population of this district to
be 10,000.
This was evidently an excessive estimate; as when
the census was taken in April, 1911, the population was
given as 9,221.
The average rate of increase of population during the
ten years 1901 to 1911, was at the rate of 240 persons
per annum.
Assuming that the population is increasing at the
same average rate; the number of inhabitants at midsummer
1911 would be 9,280; and this is the figure I am
using for the purpose of these statistics.
BIRTHS AND BIRTH RATE.
The total number of births registered in the district
was 208 ; to which must be added 9 born outside the
district to Hampton parents (the latter particulars being
furnished by the Registrar General) making a total of 217
births—107 males and 110 females—of whom eleven were
illegitimate.