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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 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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Summary of Statistics, 1909.
Area of Borough 8276.6 Acres
Population—Census, 1901 117,178
do. Estimated to middle of 1909 127,993
Inhabited Houses—Census, 1901 18,086
Total Houses to middle of 1909 22,872
Persons to a House Census 6.47
Marriages 847
Births 2,937
Birth Rate 22.9
Deaths 1,585
Death Rate 12.4
Infantile Mortality 82 per 1,000 births.