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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 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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Estimated increase in the year 1460
Natural increase (excess of births over deaths) 187")

Table: 2. The following table shows the number of houses in June, 1906, and the yearly increase since the census:—

2. The following table shows the number of houses in June, 1906, and the yearly increase since the census:—

Houses in Borough at Census,190118,086
New Houses to June 30th,1901257
do. do.19021,292
do. do.1903743
do. do.1904582
do. do.1905483
do. do.1906390
Total21,833

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3. There has been no Census since 1901. In the absence of a
quinquennial Census, it becomes 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. The population
of Dockyard, South River, and St. George's Wards, are taken
as at the census ; reduction is made in St. Mary's Ward for 101
houses demolished. The popxilation of the Plumstead Wards is
obtained by multiplying the estimated number of persons to a
house in the Parish by the No. of houses in the Ward. North
River Ward is taken as in 1904.
These populations, being
calculated differently, do not agree with the estimated population
for the Parishes.