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Woolwich 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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has diminished proportionally to that in the Borough. This
gives the following populations for the three parishes :—
Woolwich Parish ... 40,063
Plumstead „ ... 74,205
Eltham „ ... 11,617
125,885
Estimated increase in the year ... ... ... ... 94
Natural increase (excess of births over deaths) ... 1,944
2. The following table shows the number of houses in June, 1905, and the yearly increase since the census :—
| Houses in Borough at Census, 1901 | 18,086 | |
| New Houses to June 30th, 1901 | 257 | |
| do. do. 1902 | 1,292 | |
| do. do. 1903 | 743 | |
| do. do. 1904 | 582 | |
| do. do. 1905 | 483 | |
| Total | 21,443 | |
3. There will be no Census this year as there has been each
five years since 1891. Unless an Act is passed arranging for a
Census next year it will become increasingly difficult to estimate
the population correctly. I have endeavoured to err, if at all,
rather on the side of under-estimating than of over estimating
the population.
4. The following table gives for each ward the population and
number of inhabited houses at the Census, the number of persons
to a house, the number of new houses certified for water certificates,
and the present estimated population, which is the same as
that calculated for 1904 by multiplying the number of houses in
the ward by the number of persons to a house in each parish.