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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 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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SUMMARY OP STATISTICS, 1917.
Area of Borough 8,276.6 acres.
Population - Census, 1911 121,376
do. estimated to middle of 1917, civil 146,503
Total 157,973
Inhabited Houses - Census, 1911 21,463
Persons to an Acre 14.7
Persons to a House-Census, 1911 5.65
Marriages 1,445
Births 2,698
Birth Rate 17.1
Deaths 1,550
Death Rate 10.6
Infantile Mortality 79 per 1,000 births.