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Croydon 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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It will be observed that considerable activity in the
building trade has occurred at Mitcham with 287 more
houses. Coulsdon with 129, Beddington with 70 and
Wallington with 69.
Throughout the District, generally, the average number
of persons occupying each house in 1901 was 4.8, but for
1914 it has fallen to 4.4.
The average number of persons to each inhabited house
remains, as a general rule, fairly constant for each locality,
though varying considerably in different parishes, according to
the class of house erected. In many parts of the District
"tenement" houses, or houses let in flats, have been built,
and these houses have, of couse, a considerably larger number
of inmates. This is particularly the case in Mitcham.
The "natural increase" during the year was 872, as against 967 in the previous year.
| In 1897 the increase was | 474 |
| „ 1898 „ | 392 |
| 1899 „ | 879 |
| „ 1900 ,, | 460 |
| „ 1901 ,, | 548 |
| „ 1902 „ | 552 |
| „ 1903 „ | 780 |
| „ 1904 „ | 768 |
| ,, 1905 ,, | 879 |
| „ 1906 „ | 921 |
| „ 1907 „ | 986 |
| „ 1908 ,, | 903 |
| „ 1909 „ | 968 |
| ,, 1910 „ | 899 |
| „ 1911 „ | 818 |
| „ 1912 ,, | 981 |
| „ 1913 ,, | 967 |
| „ 1914 ,, | 872 |
And this has amounted to 16,129 since the census in
1891.
The "natural increase" in 1913 was greatest in Mitcham
with 508, Coulsdon and Beddington with 133 each.