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THIRD ANNUAL REPORT
ON THE
HEALTH OF THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
OF WOOLWICH,
Year ending 31st December, 1903.
PART I.
Statistics.
1. Population.—The usual mode of estimating the increase
of population, i.e., by allowing an increase for the year proportional
to that found to have obtained between the two
preceding censuses, would certainly give wrong results if
applied this year to Woolwich. The rapid increase in population
during the Boer War has now ceased, owing to the reduced
numbers employed in the Royal Arsenal, and probably since
the middle of 1902, there has been no increase in the parishes
of Woolwich and Plumstead. New houses have continued to
go up, but many old ones are unoccupied. In Eltham, however,
the case is different, and there has no doubt been a further
considerable increase of population in this parish, though
probably not in proportion to the number of new houses.
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