Report of the Medical Officer of Health and Public Analyst for the year 1919.

  • Stoke Newington (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
1920
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Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health and Public Analyst for the year 1919. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    299 POPULATION. The population at the last census (1911) was 50,689. The following estimates of population have been adopted by the Registrar General for the calculation of the death-rate and birth-rate of the borough for the year 1919: For the death rate 50,954 For the birth rate 53,079 The death-rate population excludes all non-civilian males, whether serving at home or abroad. This is necessary for the purposes of local death-rates because it has proved impossible to transfer the deaths of non-civilians to their areas of residence or to deal in any other satisfactory manner with the local mortality of this element in the population. These estimates are based mainly upon the rationing returns kindly placed at the disposal of the Department by the Ministry of Food. The birth-rate (and marriage-rate) population, on the other hand, is intended to include all the elements of the population con tributing to the birth and marriage rates. It consists, therefore, of the death-rate or civilian population plus all non-civilians enlisted from this country, whether serving at home or abroad. This non-civilian element has been distributed over all the districts in the country in proportion to their estimated civilian population. The estimated population for each of the Sub-districts is as follows:— The Northern Division of the Borough (lying North of the middle line of Church Street) has a population of about 17,660; and in the Southern Division the population is approximately 33,294.