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REPORT
Of the fledical Officer of Health
for the Year 1908.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.
Sir and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present the Annual Report on the health
and sanitary condition of the Borough for the year 1908.
Population.
The population of the Borough as estimated by the Registrar
General was, in the middle of 1908, 289,506, an increase of 8,087
compared with 1907, but this estimate, in my opinion, is much
under the actual population.
The population on which all the rates in this Report are
calculated has been obtained in a similar manner to that adopted
in 1905, 1906, and 1907, by dividing the number of inhabitants at
the Census, 1901, by the number of rated hereditaments in that
year.
The factor thus obtained represents the number of persons
per rated hereditament, by which the number of hereditaments in
the middle of 1908 is multiplied.
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