§ 36. Mr. MILLSasked the Minister of Health if he is aware that the Census Returns recently published record an increase of population at Swanscombe, Kent, numbering 47, and that this figure is challenged by the urban authority, who have records of 400 houses built since the last Census; and whether, in view of these facts, he will institute an inquiry?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINInquiry has already been made into this matter; and there appears to be no ground whatever for the apprehensions of the local authority. The whole of the additional 1279 houses built since the previous Census have been accounted for and their inhabitants duly enumerated. With regard to the suggestion which has been made that the area of the urban district as stated in the Census Report is deficient by some 400 acres, this difference consists only of fore-shore and tidal water, which it is not customary to take into account for population purposes.