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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 1913
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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The following table shows the number of houses, separate occupiers, and population in 1901 and 1911, distinguishing for 1911 the various kinds of buildings and the population enumerated therein, and also the buildings not used as dwellings:—
| 1901 | 1911. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total. | Totals (Cols. 4-11) | Buildings used as Dwellings. | Vessels, Sheds, Vagrants, etc. | Separate Flats. (Included in Col. 5.) | Buildings not used as Dwellings. | ||||||||
| Ordinary Dwelling Houses. | Blocks of Flats. | Shops. | Hotels, Inns, and Public Houses, | Offices, Warehouses, Workshops, Factories. | Institutions. | Others. | |||||||
| Kind of Building. | No. | ||||||||||||
| Cols. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| Number inhabited | 15,823 | 16,102 | 14,768 | 75 | 1,049 | 121 | 40 | 15 | 34 | - | 764 | Places of Worship | 33 |
| Separate Occupiers | 24,615 | 25,040 | 22,838 | 773 | 1,193 | 124 | 42 | 16 | 48 | 6 | 773 | Govt. & Municipal Buildings | 16 |
| Shops | 234 | ||||||||||||
| Population | 110,398 | 109,496 | 98,470 | 3,409 | 5,116 | 752 | 190 | 1,398 | 140 | 21 | 3,409 | Offices | 27 |
| Uninhabited | 424 | 640 | 561 | 1 | 70 | 1 | 3 | - | 4 | - | 207 | Warehouses. Workshops & Factories Theatres and other | 179 |
| Being built | 92 | 15 | 11 | - | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | places of amusement. | 7 |
Families or separate occupiers in Deptford :—
East 4,671
North 5,385 1911 25,040
North-West 5,368 1901 24,615
South 2,854
South-East 2,783 Increase 425
South-West 3,979
25,040
Population of Deptford living in Institutions, large establishments,
vessels, etc.:—
Number of Institutions, etc. 22
Population 1436
Population Institution.
East 227 10
North 20 1
North-West 512 4
South 93 3
South-East 584 4
South-West — —
1436 22
The following table gives the approximate number of inhabited
and uninhabited houses in each Ward at the end of the year 1913,
also the number of separate occupants of tenements, and the estimated
population of each Ward from the Census returns for 1911:—