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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Woolwich 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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Summary of Statistics, 1905.
Area of Borough 8276-6 Acres
Population—Census, 1901 117,178
do Estimated to middle of 1905 125,885
Inhabited Houses—Census, 1901 18,086
Total Houses to middle of 1905 21,443
Persons to a House-Census 6.47
Marriages 974
Births 3,549
Birth Rate 28'2
Deaths 1,605
Death Rate 12.7
Infantile Mortality 103 per 1000 births