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REPORT
Of the Medical Officer of Health
for the Year 1907.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.
Sir and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present the Annual Report of the health
and sanitary condition of the Borough for the year 1907.
Population.
The population of the Borough as estimated by the Registrar
General was, in the middle of 1907, 281,419, but this estimate, in
my opinion, is much under the actual population.
This estimated population was obtained by the Registrar
General in the following manner:—The population of the Borough
is calculated by arithmetical progression to the middle of the
year. This is multiplied by a factor obtained by dividing the
population of England and Wales for 1907, calculated by geometrical
progression, by the population calculated by arithmetical
progression.
The population on which all the rates in this Report are
calculated has been obtained in a similar manner to that adopted
in 1905 and 1906, by dividing the number of inhabitants at the
Census of 1901 by the number of rated hereditaments in that year.
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