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Bat the Census of 3911 has shown that the number of
persons per house has fallen to 4.5. Without further data,
I have no explanation of this fact to offer.
The Borough comprises 4,706 acres, having a population
of 7.1 persons to the acre.
In September, 1911, the Rateable Value was £280,286,
and the Assessable Value, £260,863.
BIRTHS.
The Births registered during the year were 649.
To this number, 11 " Transferable " births have to be
added, making a total of 660, of which 348 were males and 312
were females.
There were 22 illegitimate births, i.e., 3.3 per cent, of the
total number of births.
This gives a birth-rate of 19.5, compared with a rate of
24.4 for England and Wales, and 23.8 for the Outer Ring of
London. This is exactly the same birth-rate as that recorded
in 1910.
In 1889, when I made my first Report, the birth-rate was
28.8. Since that time there has been an almost continuous
fall.
The low birth-rate is partly to be explained by the fact
that Bromley is a residential locality, where large numbers of
unmarried servants are employed, and that many of the residents
are of middle age, having moved out here from the districts
nearer London, in which the earlier and reproductive
years of their married lives were spent.