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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 1914

Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford

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The families under the headings (a) to (d) have been treated as
"Private Families," those under the heading (e) as "private" only
when the domestic members of the occupier's family exceed the. nondomestic
(i.e., trade servants, visitors, scholars, etc.), and those under
headings (f) and (g) have been treated as " non-private " families.

Table: Population of Deptford living in Institutions, large establishments, vessels, etc.:-

Population of Deptford living in Institutions, large establishments, vessels, etc.:-

Number of Institutions, etc.22
Population1436
PopulationInstitution.
East22710
North201
North-West5124
South933
South-East5844
South-West-—
143622

Table: The following table gives the approximate number of inhabited and uninhabited houses in each Ward at the end of the year 1914, also the number of separate occupants of tenements, and the estimated population of each Ward from the Census returns for 1911:—

The following table gives the approximate number of inhabited and uninhabited houses in each Ward at the end of the year 1914, also the number of separate occupants of tenements, and the estimated population of each Ward from the Census returns for 1911:—

Ward.Inhabited Houses.Unin-habited Houses.Total Number of Houses.Houses Build-ing.Houses in TenementsNumber of Separate Occupiers in Tene-ments.Other Premises.Population of Census 1911.Males.Females.
North3.115273,142—15763914923,86811,91511,953
South2,113172,13016112814512,1435,2086,935
North-West3,83073,837—8251,68818123,48011,53011,950
South-West2,271162,28722681683116,5007,5688,932
East2,996993,095—8332721621,18510,66310,522
South-East2,371362,407116217311212,3206,1036,217
16,69620216,898341,2563,123834109,49652,98756,509

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Back-to-Back Houses.
There are very few houses of this class in the district and
practically no houses built in courts.