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The Annual Report
of the
Medical Officer of Health of the Dstrict of Barking
Town for the Year ending December 31st, 1905.
To the Chairman and Members of the Barking Town
Urban District Council.
Gentlemen,
The population of the Urban District of Barking Town, estimated
up to the middle of the year 1905 was 28,000. This,
compared with the population as per census of 1901, shows an
increase of 6,453.
The number of houses in the Town during the month of October
was about 5,200, and the number of empty houses 200; this gives
the gross number of occupied houses as 5,000.
The average number of persons per house, by the census of
1901, was 5'6, as against 5'5 in 1891.
The number of inhabited houses in March, 1901, was 3,851
(census) shewing an increase up to date of 1,349.