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ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH, PLUMSTEAD,
1899.
To the Chairman and Members of the Vestry.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my Ninth Annual
Report on the health of Plumstead, and it is very satisfactory
that, in this my last report to you as the Plumstead Vestry, I
am able to point to a much improved state of the public health.
A.—Vital Statistics.
1. Population.—In previous years I have estimated the
population on the assumption that it had increased since the
1896 Census in the same proportion as it increased in the
inter-censal period 1891-96. But the large number of new
houses built in recent years, and the well known scarcity of
house accommodation make it more than probable that the
population is increasing at a more rapid rate than in the period
1891-96. I have, therefore, taken the number of occupied
houses as the basis for the population; this was, in June,
10,628, compared with 10,298 in the year 1898, an increase of
330.