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Chelsea 1937
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1937
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Annual Report
on the
Health of the Metropolitan Borough
of Chelsea.
Year ending 3 1st December, 1937.
SECTION I.—STATISTICS AND SOCIAL
CONDITIONS OF THE BOROUGH.
GENERAL STATISTICS.
TABLE No. 1.
Area (acres) 660
Resident Population :—Registrar-General's estimate, 1937 56,510
Number of Inhabited Houses (end of 1937) according to
Rate Books 13,016
Rateable value, October, 1937 £1,283,003
Sum represented by a penny rate, October, 1937 £4,995
| (Census 1931.) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Females. | Total. | |
| Cheyne | 3,349 | 5,436 | 8,785 |
| Church | 4,390 | 5,929 | 10,319 |
| Hans Town | 2,961 | 5,839 | 8,800 |
| Royal Hospital | 2,550 | 4,833 | 7,383 |
| Stanley | 10,696 | 13,048 | 23,744 |
| 23,946 | 35,085 | 59,031 | |
(Note.—All vital Statistics given in this Report are calculated on the
Resident Population of the Borough as Estimated by the RegistrarGeneral
for 1937, viz., 56,510).