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The majority of the industries and sources of employment in
the Borough are to be found in close proximity to the River Thames
which forms the Borough boundary on the north side. Chief
among these are large Cable and Engineering Works, Ship Repairing
Works, Gasworks, Soap and Candle Works, L.T.E. Generating
Station and Tramway Car Repair Depot, The British Electricity
Authority's Works, Glass Bottle Works, Rope Works, Ship Propelling
Works, Merryweather's Works (Fire Engines), Cement and Stone
Works, Asbestos Works, Cold Meat Storage, Pressed Tool Works,
Constructional Engineering Works, Galvanising and Sheet Metal
Works, Brewery, Flour Mills, Aero Parts, Wireless and Vehicle
Parts and Tin Box Manufacturing Works.
The numbers employed at 11 of the larger factories range
between 500 and 5,000 each, whilst 17 smaller works each employ
between 100 and 400.
POPULATION
The Registrar General has submitted his estimate of the
population of Greenwich, computed at mid-year 1951, upon which
the Statistics in this Report have been based. The figure returned
is 89,390 which indicates a decline in the population of 180 since
last year but which still shows an increase of 25,590 since 1945.
The natural increase for the year, i.e., excess of births over deaths,
was 349.
Census, 1951.—The 15th Census of the population of England
and Wales was taken on the 8th April, 1951, and for the first time in
the series there was an interval of 20 years instead of the customary
10. The long interval, during which there were far-reaching
changes in legislation and social conditions, necessitated a more
exhaustive Census Form than previously. Compared with 15 in
1921 and 13 in 1931, the 1951 Schedule contained 24 questions of
which, on an average, not more than 12 or more questions needed
to be answered by any one individual adult.
A complete picture after a Census is usually not available for
some 3 or 4 years, but in order to meet the more urgent needs a
Preliminary Report has been issued which relates to numbers only,
by sex, of the population.
In this Preliminary Report the population of Greenwich is
given as 91,492, but shortly after its publication an amended figure
of 89,614 was issued by the Registrar General which shows a decrease
of 11,310 since the 1931 Census.