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I estimate the population of Ilford, by adding the
estimated population of the year 1897, 21,500, to the excess of
births over deaths, 433, and the increase of the population
inhabiting the new houses put on the rate book since my last
yearly report, 1,049 new houses at 5 persons per house are
5,245, making 27,178.
The density of the population of the district, including
Claybury Asylum and Dr. Barnardo's homes, is 3 647 persons
per acre.
The number of deaths from all causes which occurred in
the district during the year under consideration was 535, 264
of which were at Claybury Asylum, 7 were at Dr. Barnardo's
homes, which leaves 264 for the rest of the district. To these
I add the deaths of people who died in the Romford Union
who belonged to Ilford, 12 in number, which makes deaths for
Ilford itself 276, or at the rate of 10.22 per 1000 per annum
of the population.
The number of births was 697. There were no births at
either Claybury Asylum or Dr. Barnardo's, so that the birth
rate for Ilford is 25.646 per 1000 per annum of the population,
which is rather less than that of the previous year, which was
29.55 per 1000 per annum of the population.

Six of the cases of Erysipelas were notified from Claybury
and were the only infectious ones notified from there.