[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Eastbourne County Borough.

  • Eastbourne (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Eastbourne County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    estimate of 45,500, visitors are not included, except in so far as they were by the April, 1891, census ; in the death-rate, however, their deaths are included unless the contrary is expressly stated, so that here again the worst of the death-rate is given. Between the census of 1881 and that of 1891 the population increased just twice as much by excess of immigration over emigration as by excess of births over deaths. This latter, known as “natural increase,” was 440 in 1898. If the conditions of increase existing from 1881 to 1891 continued therefore the population increased about 1,320 in the year. By these and various other methods of calculation it is found that the number 45,500 may be fairly taken as not overestimating the population number in 1898. Sex Constitution of the Population. The sex constitution of the population of Eastbourne for 1898 is calculated on the supposition that the comparative rates of increase of the sexes still continue as in 1881 —1891, when the males constituted 35*55 percent., and the females 6445 percent., of the total increase of population in the ten years. The following table shews the sex constitution of the population calculated in this way. The estimated numbers can only of course be approximate. Year. Males, Total. Per- centage. 1 Females, Total. Per- centage. Total. Excess of Females. 1881 (census) 10,060 457 11,954 54'3 22,014 1,894 1891 (census) 14,665 41-9 20,304 58-1 34,969 5,639 1898 (estimated) 18,404 40*4 27,096 59*6 45,500 8,692 It is improbable that this decrease in percentage of males compared with females has been continually going on at the same rate, but the above fairly represents the proportion of the sexes. If however the proportions of the sexes remain as in 1891