[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Portsmouth Borough.

  • Portsmouth (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1896
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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Portsmouth Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Statistics. — :o:— POPULATION.—The population of the Borough in the middle of 1896, estimated on the supposition that it has increased from 1891 at the same rate of increase as in the period 1881 to 1891, is 178,612. This estimate, in all prob¬ ability, is considerably under the true population, which, I believe, will be found to be nearer 187,610—a number founded on a report supplied to me by Mr. Baxter, the Assistant Overseer, who reports the number of occupied houses to be 34,739, this is multiplied by 5’4, the average number of persons in each house in 1891. The figures 178,612, however, are those used by the Registrar-General, and I have therefore adopted them in my Report. At the same time, it is well to bear in mind that our death rates, birth rates and sickness rates being based on the smaller figures are represented (if my view is correct) a trifle higher than is actually the case. The mean density of the population is 39*8 persons to the acre, an increase of 4*3 persons per acre since 1891. In the thirty-three large towns—including London—the average number of persons to an acre is 35*4. The populations of the various districts were as follows :—Portsmouth, 6,839 ; Portsea, 14,989 ; Kingston, 68,279 ; Landport, 71,363 ; Southsea, 17,169. BIRTHS.—The number of Births registered was 5,006, being 138 in excess of those of the preceding year, and gives a birth rate per 1,000 of 28’03, which is slightly higher than that