Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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populations of the wards are estimated by the number of occupied houses in each ward.
Wards. | Dockyard | St. Mary's | River Ward. | St. George's | Burrage | Glyndon | Herbert | St. Margaret's | Central | St. Nicholas's | Eltham | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
North | South | |||||||||||
Population | 8,712 | 10,439 | 2,991 | 11,405 | 8,078 | 9,837 | 9,810 | 9,080 | 9,842 | 10,118 | 19,640 | 7,226 |
No. of Inhabited Houses | 1,325 | 1,126 | 441 | 1,671 | 878 | 1,735 | 1,697 | 1,612 | 1,638 | 1,805 | 2,805 | 1,353 |
Persons to a House | 6.57 | 9.27 | 6.78 | 6.83 | 9.20 | 5.67 | 5.78 | 5.63 | 6.00 | 5.61 | 7.00 | 5.34 |
New Houses— | ||||||||||||
April to June, 1901 | — | — | 4 | — | — | — | 8 | 12 | 61 | 7 | 85 | 80 |
June, 1901, to June, 1902 | — | — | 71 | — | — | — | 8 | 79 | 265 | 7 | 455 | 407 |
„ 1902, to „ 1903 | 12 | — | 33 | — | — | — | 9 | 40 | 153 | 7 | 239 | 250 |
„ 1903, to „ 1904 | 4 | — | 89 | 14 | — | 8 | - | 30 | 94 | 7 | 185 | 151 |
,, 1904, to ,, 1905 | 5 | 18 | 2 | — | — | 2 | _ | 33 | 102 | 12 | 170 | 139 |
„ 1905,to „ 1906 | 11 | 14 | — | 9 | — | — | — | 36 | 69 | 2 | 150 | 99 |
„ 1906, to „ 1907 | 21 | 5 | 5 | 6 | — | — | — | 27 | 36 | 7 | 91 | 83 |
„ 1907, to „ 1908 | 8 | †43 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 29 | 1 | 52 | 53 |
„ 1908, to „ 1909 | 7 | 1 | 22 | 3 | — | — | — | 4 | 20 | — | 21 | 79 |
Total Houses | 1,393* | 1,207* | 679 | 1,708* | 879 | 1,746 | 1,729 | 1,886 | 2467 | 1,855 | 4253 | 2694 |
Estimated Populations | 7,800 | 9,788 | 3,396 | 10,188 | 7,314 | 9,184 | 9,106 | 9,444 | 13,173 | 9,500 | 25,000 | 13,595 |
*In Dockyard, St. Mary's and River(South) Wards the number of new houses is probably less than the number
of old houses which have been demolished.
†40 flats in Army Quarters, Artillery Place.