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ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH, PLUMSTEAD.
1896.
To the Chairman and Members of the Plumstead Vestry.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my sixth Annua
Report on the health of Plumstead.
A.—Vital Statistics.
Population.
1. The population was found at the census taken in the
spring to be 59,252. Thus, as I anticipated in my last report, the
population was over estimated in the preceding years, the rate
of increase which existed from 1881 to 1891 having considerably
diminished between 1891 and 1896. No doubt this was
mainly due to the work having been slacker in the Arsenal,
and probably, now that work is again brisk in the Ordnance
Factories, the rate of increase will again be higher. The
results of the census in tabular form are found in Table XII.
2. The various birth and death rates are reckoned on a
population of 59,615, which is the population which existed on