[Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough.

  • Blackpool (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1907
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Credit: [Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There is no doubt that the increase in population in Black- pool has proceeded in a very much smaller ratio during the last few years, and, as will be seen, my own estimate for the middle of 1907, is even lower than the lower figure given by the Registrar-General’s methods. I went very thoroughly into the methods of estimating populations early in 1904 owing to the importance of the question of Blackpool’s true population in relation to the application to be constituted a County Borough. I then came to the conclusion that the method adopted by my predecessor, and continued by myself, of estimating the population by means of an enumeration of inhabited houses and the use of the census factor of persons per house gives the most accurate results, and provides a reliable estimate of the average resident population for the town. When we consider the large number of domestic servants, shop attendants, and others engaged in the work of the town, who come here for the season only, and when we take into account the large influx of hawkers and street vendors, we should be justified in estimating our average resident population at a figure very much higher than the one thus obtained. The estimated population for 1907 has been obtained by multiplying the number of inhabited houses (as found by the Overseers at the August-September enumeration for rate purposes) in each of the six wards of the town, by the Census factor showing the average number of persons per inhabited house in each ward at the date of the Census. These Ward populations added together give the total population of the Borough at the end of August. To bring