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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 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1920.
Area of the Borough 8,276.6 acres
Population—Census, 1911 121,376
do. Estimated to middle 1920—for birth
rate 147,827
do. do. for death rate 141,666
Persons to an acre—Census, 1911 14.7
do. do. 1920 17.9
Marriages 1,240
Births 3,658
Birth Rate 24.7
Deaths 1,487
Death Rate 10.5
Deaths under one year 224
Infantile Death Rate 61