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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
Tottenham 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham District]
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one tenant, and that the number of tenements, or portions of
houses let to and occupied by separate tenants, amounted
to 7,251.
The rate per inhabited house varied from 5.49 in the
Lower Ward to 718 in St. Ann's Ward. The rate per
inhabited tenement varied from 2.74 in the Lower Ward to
3.59 in St. Ann's Ward.
Calculating" from the Treasurer's figures, the population
in November would have been 147,838, without making any
deduction for contingencies.
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The number of births during the year was 3,781, and the
number of deaths amounted to 1,621, showing a natural
increase in the population of 2,160.