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9
Nineteenth Annual Report
on the
HEALTH OF THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
OF WOOLWICH.
Year ending 31st December, 1919.
STATISTICS.
POPULATION.
1. The population of the Borough of Woolwich, as estimated
at the Census of 1911, was 121,376. This number included
5,743 soldiers. The estimated population adopted by the
Registrar-General for the calculation of the birth-rate and deathrate
of the Borough of Woolwich for the year 1919, is as follows:
For the death-rate 136,237
For the birth-rate 141,918
The following extract from a circular letter from the General
Register Office explains how these figures are arrived at:—
"The death-rate population excludes all non-civilian males,
whether serving at home or abroad. This is necessary for the
purposes of local death-rates, because it has proved impossible to
transfer the deaths of non-civilians to their areas of residence, or
to deal in any other satisfactory manner with the local mortality