SYDNEY
ITS GROWING POPULATION. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, July 9. The vital statistics show that the population of the city of Sydney and suburbs numbered 981,400 on December 31 last, an increase of 25,000 during the year. The actual city population is 109,970. The number of marriage contracts during 1923 was 9734, which is 5 per cent, below the average of the past five years. Births registered totalled 21,990, comprising 11,261 males and 10,729 females, which is 5 per cent, below the average of past years. There were 9390 deaths, which is eight per cent, below the same average, except the influenza year of 1919. The number of children who died under one year of age was 1405, or 69.3 per thousand births. Deaths through cancer decreased 3 per cent, in comparison with the 1918-22 period.
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Southland Times, Issue 19293, 11 July 1924, Page 5
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