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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
Woolwich 1918
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health 1918
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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1918.
Area of Borough 8,276.6 acres
Population — Census, 1911 121,376
do. estimated to middle of 1918, civil 146,503
Total 155,576
Inhabited Houses—Census, 1911 21,463
Persons to an acre 14.7
Persons to a House—Census, 1911 5.65
Marriages 1,484
Births 2,578
Birth Rate 16.5
Deaths 2,092
Death Rate 14.3
Infantile Mortality, per 1,000 births 104