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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Deptford 1915
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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buildings and the population enumerated therein, and also the buildings not used as dwellings :—
| 1901 | 1911. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total. | Buildings used as Dwellings. | Buildings not used as Dwellings. | |||||||||||
| Totals (Cols. 4-11) | Ordinary Dwelling Houses. | Blocks of Flats. | Shops. | Hotels, Inns, and Public Houses, | Offices, Warehouses. Workshops, Factories. | Institutions. | Others, | Vessels. Sheds, Vagrants, etc. | Separate Flats. (Included in Col. 5.) | ||||
| Kind of Building. | No. | ||||||||||||
| Cols. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| Number inhabited | 15,823 | 16,102 | 14,768 | 75 | 1,049 | 121 | 40 | 15 | 34 | – | 764 | Places of Worship | 33 |
| Separate Occupiers | 24,615 | 25,040 | 22,838 | 773 | 1,193 | 124 | 4 2 | 16 | 48 | 6 | 773 | Govt. & Municipal Buildings | 16 |
| Population | 110,398 | 109,496 | 98,470 | 3,409 | 5,116 | 752 | 190 | 1,398 | 140 | 21 | 3,409 | Shops | 234 |
| Offices | 27 | ||||||||||||
| Uninhabited | 424 | 640 | 561 | 1 | 70 | 1 | 3 | – | 4 | – | 207 | Warehouses. Work-shops & Factories | 179 |
| Theatres and other | |||||||||||||
| Being built | 92 | 15 | 11 | – | 3 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | places of amuse-ment. | 7 |
Families or separate occupiers (private and other) in Deptford:—
East 4,671
North 5,385 1911 25,040
North-West 5,368 1901 24,615
South 2,854
South-East 2,783 Increase 425
South-West 3,979
25,040
Number of Private Families 24,975
Population in Private Families 107,775
Population of Deptford living in Institutions, large establishments, vessels, etc.:—
| Number of Institutions, etc. | 22 | |
| Population | 1436 | |
| Population | Institution. | |
| East | 227 | 10 |
| North | 20 | 1 |
| North-West | 512 | 4 |
| South | 93 | 3 |
| South-East | 584 | 4 |
| South-West | — | — |
| 1436 | 22 |