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, 9
Twenty-third Annual Report
on the
HEALTH OF THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH
OF WOOLWICH,
Year ending 31st December, 1923.
SECTION I.—GENERAL STATISTICS.
Area (acres) 8,282
Population, 1921 140,389
Number of Inhabited Houses, 1921 26,048
Number of Families or Separate Occupiers, 1921 33,647
Rateable Value, October, 1923 £954,085
Sum represented by a penny rate, October, 1923 £3,975
Population. The population of the Borough at the time
of the Census, 1921, consisted of 140,389 persons, but the
nett civilian population consisted of only 136,307 persons.
For 1923, the civilian population is estimated by the Registrar
General to be 140,000. This estimate is based on the 1921
figures after allowance for the varying rate of natural increase,
as evidenced by the births and deaths, and for migration as
indicated from other sources. In estimating the population
in the various registration districts, I have followed a similar
method and have made use of the information available in
the Housing Department as to movement from other parts
of the Borough to Eltham.