In Cumberland, Westmorland, and West Suffolk there have been small
decreases in the population, and the same fact is noticed in five of the Welsh rural counties, but the only boroughs which show a decrease—and this is slight—are Hastings, Halifax, Burton, and Canterbury. The natural in- crease of population in the last decade, i.e., the increase of births over deaths, should have augmented the population by 4,044,922. It would appear, therefore, that a loss of, roughly, half a million has to be accounted for by an excess of emigra- tion over immigration. The surprise of the census is Coventry, where the increase in ten years has been 52.01 per cent. Coventry ten years ago was twenty-two persons short of 70,000, and now has a population of 106,377, an increase due to the development of the motor and bicycle industries.
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