[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Plymouth Borough and Port.

  • Plymouth (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1909
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Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Plymouth Borough and Port. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VITAL AND MORTAL STATISTICS. AREA.—The Borough of Plymouth contains 2370 acres, or rather more than 3.7 square miles; excluding inland water, it is 2352 acres. POPULATION.—The general method of estimating the population of a town in a given year is that used by the Registrar-General. This assumes that the rate of increase since the last census is the same as was the rate of increase during the ten years between the last census and that immed¬ iately preceding it. Calculated on this basis, the population of the Borough in the middle of 1909 was 124,180. The increase over 1908 is 2067 on the estimated population, whilst the natural increase, the excess of births over deaths L 953, as compared with 818 in 1908. DENSITY OF POPULATION.—The mean density of population is 52.8 persons per acre, and an average of 7.86 persons in each house. MARRIAGES.—The number of marriages has been 987, giving a rate of 15.89 per 1000 population. This rate is lower than any of the ten years 1899-1908, the average being 18.04. ' BIRTHS.—In the year 1909 the returns of the local regis¬ trars recorded 2814 births, as follows:— %