BRITISH CENSUS
NEARLY 45 MILLIONS. (Tiritish Official TVireiess.) RUGBY, July 6. The first figures taken on April 26, issued by the Registrar-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 against 19,148,000 males, a . surplus of 1,652,000. The population oi Scotland is 4,800,00, making a. total for Great Britain of nearly 45,(XX),000. The density is 685 persons per square mile.
The census reveals the growth in the population of London,-with a-ten-dency for the outer suburbs to increase at the expense of the “country of London” area. With tlie so-called outer ring the total of the London population now reaches 12,000,000.
Tables show the number of births
"registered at compared with 8,281,000 in the 1921 census, and the figures are the lowest recorded since JBBI, Th° death-rate is also lower.
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