[Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Shrewsbury Borough.

  • Shrewsbury (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1936
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Credit: [Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Shrewsbury Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    POPULATION. The Registrar General’s estimate of the population of Shrewsbury at the middle of 1936 was 37,490, being a decrease of 10 compared with the estimated population of the previous year. The live births during the year exceeded the deaths by 76. Unless the population estimated for 1935 was too high a figure, it is somewhat surprising to find that the Registrar General's estimate for 1936 shows a reduction in view of the fact that the number of inhabited houses at the end of the year 1936 was 444 more than at the corresponding date in 1935, even after making allowance for the fact that some of these ' inhabited houses” were unoccupied though inhabitable. Population figures in Census years together with estimated populations in recent inter censal years are as follows : Year. Population. 1861 ... 22,025 1871 ... 23,406 1881 ... 26,478 1891 ... 26,967 1901 ... 28,395 1911 . 29,389 1921 . 31,030 i93i ... 32.372 1932 Estimated 32,990 1933 ,, 33,220 1934 ,, 37>38i \ 1936 , t • • • 37490'