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Southwark 1922
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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No. l CENSUS TABLES.
Administrative County and Metropolitan Boroughs Population and Intercensal Variations.
| District. | Population. | Persons. | Population. | Intercensal Variation. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901. | Persons. | 1911. | Females. | 1921. | Females. | 1901-11. | 1911-21. | |||||
| Persons. | Males. | Males. | Inc. or Dec. (-). Amount. | Inc. or Dec. (-). | Excess of Births over Deaths. (- = Deficiency.) | Gain or Loss (-) by Migration. (See Note (a).) | ||||||
| Amount. | Per cent. | |||||||||||
| Cols. a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | 1 | m |
| 4,536,267 | 4,521,685 | 2,126,341 | 2,395,344 | 4,484,523 | 2,071,579 | 2,412,944 | -14,582 | -37,162 | - 0.8 | 359,861 | -397,023 | |
| 26,923 | 19,657 | 10,080 | 9,577 | 13.709 | 6,722 | 6,987 | -7,266 | -5,948 | -30.3 | -979 | -4,969 | |
| Battersea | 168,907 | 167,713 | 80,916 | 86,827 | 167,739 | 78,658 | 89,081 | -1,164 | -4 | -0.0 | 15,473 | -15,477 |
| Bermondsey | 130.760 | 125,903 | 62,890 | 63,013 | 119,452 | 58,341 | 61,111 | -4,857 | -6,451 | -5.1 | 13,771 | -20,222 |
| Bethnal Green | 129,680 | 128,183 | 62,658 | 65,525 | 117,238 | 56,766 | 60,472 | -1,497 | -10,945 | -8.5 | 14,871 | -25,816 |
| Camberwell | 259,339 | 261,328 | 124,255 | 137,073 | 267,198 | 125,548 | 141,650 | 1,989 | 5,870 | 2.2 | 24,401 | -18,531 |
| Chelsea | 73,842 | 66,385 | 28,470 | 37,915 | 63,697 | 25,794 | 37,903 | -7,457 | -2,688 | -4.0 | 1,929 | -4,617 |
| Deptford | 110,398 | 109,496 | 52,987 | 56,509 | 112,534 | 54,131 | 58,403 | -902 | 3,038 | 2,8 | 12,095 | -9,057 |
| Finsbury | 101,463 | 87,923 | 42,655 | 45,268 | 75,995 | 36,156 | 39,839 | -13,540 | -11,928 | -13.6 | 6,776 | -18,704 |
| Fulham | 137,289 | 153,284 | 72,662 | 80,622 | 157,938 | 73,243 | 84,695 | 15,995 | 4,654 | 3.0 | 16,957 | -12,303 |
| Greenwich | 95,770 | 95,968 | 47,241 | 48,727 | 100,450 | 48,850 | 51,600 | 198 | 4,482 | 4.7 | 8,953 | -4,471 |
| Hackney | 219,110 | 222,533 | 102,948 | 119,585 | 222,142 | 101,993 | 120,149 | 3,423 | -391 | -0.2 | 18,497 | -18,888 |
| Hammersmith | 112,239 | 121,521 | 58,084 | 63,437 | 130,295 | 62,479 | 67,816 | 9,282 | 8,774 | 7.2 | 9,737 | -963 |
| Hampstead | 81,942 | 85,495 | 32,807 | 52,688 | 86,153 | 33,253 | 52,900 | 3,553 | 658 | 0.8 | 3,154 | -2,496 |
| Holborn | 59,405 | 49,357 | 24,089 | 25,268 | 43,192 | 20,732 | 22,460 | -10,048 | -6,165 | -12.5 | -9 | -6,156 |
| Islington | 334,991 | 327,403 | 155,901 | 171,502 | 330,737 | 154,661 | 176,076 | -7,588 | 3,334 | 1.0 | 25,353 | -22,019 |
| Kensington | 176,628 | 172,317 | 66,497 | 105,820 | 175,859 | 67,805 | 108,054 | -4,311 | 3,542 | 2.1 | 6,845 | -3,303 |
| Lambeth | 301,895 | 298,058 | 142,080 | 155,978 | 302,868 | 141,528 | 161,340 | 38,37 | 4,810 | 1.6 | 22,243 | -17,433 |
| Lewisham | 127,495 | 160,834 | 72,780 | 88,054 | 174,194 | 79,165 | 95,029 | 33,339 | 13,360 | 8.3 | 13,244 | 116 |
| Paddington | 143,976 | 142,551 | 60,415 | 82,136 | 144,261 | 60,491 | 83,770 | -1,425 | 1,710 | 1.2 | 7,997 | -6,287 |
| Poplar | 168,822 | 162,442 | 80,912 | 81,530 | 162,578 | 80,420 | 82,158 | -6,380 | 136 | 0.1 | 19,688 | -19,552 |
| St, Marylebone | 133,301 | 118,160 | 49,685 | 68,475 | 104,173 | 41,007 | 63,166 | -15,141 | -13,987 | -11.8 | 3,102 | -17,089 |
| St, Pancras | 235,317 | 218,387 | 106,728 | 111,659 | 211,366 | 99,620 | 111,746 | -16,930 | -7,021 | -3.2 | 15,531 | -22,552 |
| Shoreditch | 118,637 | 111,390 | 54,842 | 56,548 | 104,248 | 50,317 | 53,931 | -7,247 | -7,142 | -6.4 | 11,232 | -18,374 |
| Southwark | 206,180 | 191,907 | 95,532 | 96,375 | 184,404 | 89,653 | 94,751 | -14,273 | -7,503 | -3.9 | 18,535 | -26,038 |
| Stepney | 298,600 | 279,804 | 140,116 | 139,688 | 249,657 | 122,515 | 127,142 | -18,796 | -30,147 | -10.8 | 30,922 | -61,069 |
| Stoke Newington | 51,247 | 50,659 | 22,663 | 27,996 | 52,172 | 23,461 | 28,711 | 588 | 1,513 | 3.0 | 2,831 | -1,318 |
| Wandsworth | 231 922 | 311,360 | 140,728 | 170,632 | 328,307 | 147,229 | 181,078 | 79,438 | 16,947 | 5.4 | 23,854 | -6,907 |
| Westminster, City of | 183,011 | 160,261 | 73,449 | 86,812 | 141,578 | 61,380 | 80,198 | -22,750 | -18,683 | -11.7 | 263 | -18,946 |
| Woolwich | 117,178 | 121,376 | 61,271 | 60,105 | 140,389 | 69,661 | 70,728 | 4,198 | 19,013 | 15.7 | 12,595 | 6,418 |
| Note (a) War deaths which occurred outside the country are included in column M as losses by migration, Estimates for individual districts are not available, but for whole of England and Wales they have been assessed at about 3.1 per cent, of the 1921 male population. | ||||||||||||