[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Aldershot U.D.C.

  • Aldershot (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1909
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Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Aldershot U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    :o: Population.—The average population of the South Camp for the year 1909 is returned at 15,009. Tlie population for the town is not easily estimated, owing to tlie constant change of a large portion of the inhabitants. On the supposition that the town has increased in population since 1901, wdien the the census was taken, at the same rate as it did from 1891 to 1901, we arrive at the figure 21,072, as being the number of persons living in the town in the middle of 1909. If one could discover the exact number of inhabited houses at the same time, any great error in calculation of population could be easily avoided, since it waas found at tlie last census that 5’6 persons, on the average, lived in every inhabited house, and it is improbable that anything more than a slight change in this respect has taken place. ddie Rate Collector informs me that the average number of assessments for the two half-years w^as 4172, and, making a deduction of 300 assessments on un- inhabited property, and also a deduction of 100 as represent- ing the approximate number of houses that are empty at one and the same time, the estimated number of inhabited houses is seen to be 3772. This figure multiplied by 5'6 wmuld give a population of 21,123, which is very near the figure obtained by the officiafl method. d'he figures of school attendance are sometimes a help in checking estimates of population. The average number on the books in 1909 w^as 3252 ; schoolchildren constituted I5'8 per cent, of the wdiole population in 1901. If the conditions remained the same they would represent 20,582 ]ieople in 1909. ddie conditions, however, are now^ not quite similar, since by a recent resolution of the Education Com- mittee tlievare now kept at school until iq^^earsof age ; it is probable therefore that they do not represent so large a population, and therefore the school attendance wmuld tend to show that the number of inhabitants is considerably