Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1905 of the Acting Medical Officer of Health
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Summary of Vital Statistics for 1905.
Population Estimated to middle of 1995 88,142
Density ,, „ 38·9 persons per acre
Births 1421
Birth Rate 16·1
Marriages 602:
Marriage Rate 6·8.
Deaths 823.
Recorded Death Rate 9·3
Infantile Mortality 93·6 per 1000 births
Zymotic Death Rate 0·47
Population at Census, 1901 81,942:
Inhabited Houses „ 11,294.
Area of Borough (excluding area covered by water) 2,253 acres.