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GENERAL STATISTICS.
Area (exclusive of tidal water and foreshore), 6,556 acres.
Population Census 1921 9,127
Estimated 1926—local figures 38,275
Registrar General's Estimate 1927 37,500
June 1927—local figures 50,000
No. of structurally separate dwellings (Census 1921) 1,871
No. of families (Census 1921) 1,957
Rateable value £198,000
Sum represented by a penny rate £803
Occupations of Inhabitants.
Up to recent years Dagenham was part of a rural community,
the chief occupations of the inhabitants being farming and
market gardening, and employment in the factories in the
southern part of the District.
In 1920 the London County Council obtained powers to buy
some 2,768 acres of land, most of it lying in Dagenham, for
the development of a housing estate. These houses are now
being handed over at an average rate of about 70 per week,
resulting in the transfer of some 15,000 persons per annum.
The district therefore has now largely become a dormitory
for persons occupied in London.

Birth rate 24.2
Deaths.
349 194 155
Death rate 7.0
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth
from Sepsis 4
other causes 2
Deaths of Infants under one year of age per 1,000 births:—
Legitimate 61 Illegitimate 107 Total 62.
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 1
Whooping Cough (all ages) 5
„ „ Diarrhœa (under 2 years of age) 13