HOMELAND CENSUS
LONDON’S EIGHT MILLIONS. [bbitish official wireless.] RUGBY, July 6. The first figures of the census taken on April 26, issued by the Regis-trar-General to-day, show a total population of England and Wales of 39,948,000, an increase since the -last .census in 1921 of 2,061,000. Females preponderate, there being 20,800,000. The density is 685 persons per square mile. The population of Scotland is 4,800,000, making a total for Great Britain of nearly 45,000,000. Tables show the number of births registered as 6,930,000, compared with 8,281,000 in the 1921 census, and the figures are the lowest recorded since 1881. The death-rate is also lower. The census reveals the growth in the population of London, which is now over 8,000,000, with a tendency for the outer suburbs to increase at the expense of the “country of London” area. With the so-called outer ring the total of the London population now reaches 12,000,000. u ,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 July 1931, Page 2
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