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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 1905
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1905
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SUMMARY OF VITAL AND MORTAL STATISTICS
FOR 1905.
Area 1,574 acres
Population—
Census 1901 110,398
Estimated to middle of 1905 114,512
Number of inhabited houses (Census 1901) 15,823
Average number of persons per house (Census 1901) 7
Density 71 per acre
Marriages 657
Births 3,290
Birth-rate 28·73
Deaths 1,642
Death-rate 14·33
Infantile Mortality 124 per 1,000 births