[Report 1911] / Medical Officer of Health, Accrington Borough.

  • Accrington (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1911
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    To the Sanitary Authority of the {Thorough of Accrington. Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit for your consideration, my Report on the Health and Sanitary condition of the Borough for the year ending 31st December, 1911. The year 1911, being Census year, the population of the Borough at the end of the first quarter of the year proved to be 45,031, and from my returns of births and deaths I estimate that the population at the middle of the year would be 45,075, and this is the figure upon which all the rates are calculated in this Report. My estimation of the population to the middle of the year 1910 was 46,850, this figure must have been about 1,800 in excess of the real population at that time. This error, although very great, is very much less than that of the Registrar General. If the natural increase of the population, that is the excess of births over deaths, during the years 1901 to 1910, is added to the Census enumeration of 1901, it would give a population in 1910 of 46,541. that is about 1,520 in excess of the Census. The natural increase during the ten years was 3,429, the actual increase according to the Census, 1,909, so that the Borough must have lost by excess of emigration over immigration 1,520 inhabitants. What has been Accrington’s loss, let us hope has been some other