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URBAN DISTRICT OF ERITH.
Annual Report
OF THE
Medical Officer of Health,
For the Year 1907.
ERith, Kent,
March 23rd, 1908.
TO THE URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL OF ERITH.
Gentlemen,—
I have the honour to submit my Annual Report for the year 1907, in
accordance with the Regulations of the Local Government Board.
Population of the District.
The returns at the Census of 1901 showed the population to be 25,296, and
the number of inhabited houses 4,291. Since then 1,370 houses have been built, 55
during the past year, making a total of 5,661. In my last report I estimated the
population at 30,331, at that time there were only a few houses empty in the district,
but owing to slackness of work at the factories here during the past year, and a
strike at one of the works, a number of men have left the district with their families.
At the middle of last year there were about 500 houses empty, and taking the average
number of inhabitants at 5 per house, it gives a population of 2,500 who have left,
deducting this number from the estimate of last year, and adding the natural
increase, that is the excess of births over deaths, viz. 650, I estimate the population
at the middle of 1907 to have been 28,481, which figures I have adopted for
statistical purposes.
Births.
The number of births in the district during the year was 852, viz., 449 males
and 403 females. This is a decrease of 59 as compared with last year.
There were 14 illegitimate births during the year, viz., 8 males and 6 females.
The birth rate for the year is 29.91, slightly lower than last year, and 4.78
lower than the average for the previous 10 years.