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URBAN DISTRICT OF ERITH.
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
Medical Officer of Health,
FOR THE YEAR 1905.
Erith, Kent,
March 12th, 1906.
TO THE URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL OF ERITH.
Gentlemen,—
I have the honour to submit my Annual Report for the year 1905 in
accordance with the Regulations of the Local Government Board.
Population of the District.
The returns at the last Census in 1901 showed the population to be 25,296,
and the number of inhabited houses 4,291. Since then 1,232 new houses have
been built, 50 of them during the year 1905, making a total of 5,523. In my last
Report I estimated the population in 1904 at 27,582 at the middle of the year,
and there were then about 500 houses empty; at the middle of 1905 about 300 of
these had been re-occupied; allowing for these at the rate of five inhabitants to
each house, and taking the excess of births over the deaths, I have estimated
that the population at middle of 1905 was 29,700.
Births.
There were 900 births in the district during the year, viz.: 461 males and
439 females. This is a decrease of 16 as compared with last year.
The birth rate for the year is 30.30, the lowest during the past ten years, and
5.22 less than the average for that period.
There were only eight illegitimate births.
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