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THE volume of the Census, 1931, which covers the County of London has been published (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 3s. net). The total population enumerated in the City of London and the twenty-eight Metropolitan Boroughs comprising the Administrative County of London on the night of April 26/27, 1931, numbered 4,397,003 persons. The males and females were respectively 2,044,108 and 2,352,895, a ratio of 1151 females per 1000 males. For the third decennium in succession, the County population shows a decline, the loss during the past intercensal period being 87,520, a number comparable with the population of a good-sized town like Ipswich or Wigan. The number of private families has increased by 6·17 per cent, and the average size of the family has been reduced by 8·7 per cent, to 3·46 persons. With the reduction in the average size of the family, the average number of persons for each occupied room has declined from 1·05 in 1921 to 0·98 in 1931 that is to say, on an average there is less overcrowding. In Greater London, which occupies roughly a circle of 15 miles radius with Charing Cross as a centre, 8,203,942 persons were enumerated, or more than one-fifth of the total population of England and Wales.
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Population of London. Nature 130, 125–126 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130125d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130125d0