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REPORT
Of the Medical Officer of Health
for the Year 1909.
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 1909.
Population.
The population of the Borough as estimated by the Registrar
General was, in the middle of 1909, 297,646, an increase of 8,140
compared with 1908, 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, 1907, and 1908, 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 1909 is multiplied.