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Star Theatre: "Caught Short." King's Theatre: Scandal Sheet."
Central Theatro: "What. Men Want."
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MAY, AUGUST 6, 1931 #2 #Eл#43XTER Price}
FIRST
"SECRETS” OF 1931 CENSUS.
BRITAIN'S POPULATION NEARING
STANDSTILL.
LOWEST INCREASE SINCE 1801.
Britain's population on the night vonted in the preliminary census of April 20 was 44,790,485, it is ro
returns issued by the Registrar General.
Although the highest total ever rocorded-excceding that of 1021, by 2,061,3-the figures represent the lowest rate of increase (with the exception of the war decade) sinco census-taking began in 1801, and the lowest of any country in the world,"except Sweden.
If the birth-rate remains at its present agure, the report points out, population will reach ita will decline at an increasing rate maximum about 1950, after, which it
Other facts, disclosed by the figures are:
The population is five times greater than in 1801, and more than treble that of 100 years ago;
Women outnumber men of 1,020,943 compared with 1,738,271 in 1991 and 1,170,278 in 18y
Mortality has fallen by eo pet cant, compared with 1911-91; and by 30 per cent; compared with 1901-11;
The density of population is das per square mile-greater than that of any other country with records, excopt possibly Belgium, and double that of most countries;
Eighty per cent. are living in towns-2 per cent. in the thirteen biggest towna-and only 20 per cent. in the country,
London's Vast Growth.
One of the most striking sections of the report is that dealing with Sheet."
the growth of London, which, with Central Theatre: "What Mena population of 8,202,818, now, Want."
Theatre":
houses one-fifth of the total popula Prince's
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tion of Great Britain and one-quar Dinner Dances: at Peninsula and ter of the urban population. Repulse Bay Hotels; Flannel Dance at Shek-O Country Club.
Home Maile: Inward from America by President Adama. Out ward for Europe via Suez, by Suwa Maru, 8.30 a.m.; for America and, Europe vin Siberia by President Jefferson, 5. p.m.
Tides-High at 3.18 am, and 3.33 p.m. Low at 119) a.m. and 6.30 p.m.
Although in the County of London a decrease of 87,702 persons is re- corded, the "Outer Ring" shows
that of Dagenham increased, by 879
90,000. per cent from 9,000 to nearly
This movement of population from the centre outwards is shown in the following table:-
London
County.
Outer London.
,808,494
$14,220
930,364
1801 1881. ..3,830,287. 1901. .4,538,26" 2,045,139 1991. 4,494,523 2,995,078 1031. 4,308,621 3,803,097
Increase Trebled.
"Greater London's increase bo-
of 9.7 tween 1921 and 1031 was at the rate. per cent., which was three times as great as in the preceding decennium, and nearly double that for the county as a whole.
So great a change in present. circumstances," says the Registrar, General, marks a distinct depar ture from the general trend of population developments indicated by the FBcords up to 1981......
The rapid urban development of the latter balf of the nineteenth century affected London and the provinces alike. The latest recorda indicate that now the development, is concentrated primarily in the South-Eastern counties and thats London area is growing at the ex- pense, not so much of rural arens, ss of the provincial towns, parti- cularly those of South Wales and of the North of England.
The drift to the South-East is shown by the following figures of decreasing and increasing popula tions:
Counties North of Che
hire and Yorkshire...-443,000
Wales Midlands
East i South-east
-250,000 $1,000
-$1,000 ...+615,000
In the South-east, Middlesex
"a record of rapid and almost in-shows the biggest increase, with a variable growth."
rate of 30.8 per cent. It is followed
Thus, while the population of the by Surrey, with 27 per cent.; Hart- City of London fell by 19.8 perfordshire, with 2014 por cent.; cent, during the ten years 1921-1931, (Continued on: Page 2.)",
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