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The above figures have been used throughout the Report
for calculating the rates in the Borough and in the various
registration districts.
SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE DISTRICT.
At the beginning of 1923 the Registrar General published
a further report on the 1921 Census dealing with the workplaces
of occupied persons in England and Wales. In this
report the population of the country was classified by reference
to the day distribution of the occupied population. The
figures, so far as they apply to Woolwich, are shown below
and they show that the day population of the Borough exceeded
by 6,685 the enumerated night population. This
excess of the day population is a feature of central London
Boroughs and is not, as a rule, noted in the peripheral
Boroughs. There are many large works on the borders of
Woolwich and in the influx of workers to these places lies
the explanation of this fact.
It will be seen from Table No. 1 that 16,397 Woolwich
residents work outside Woolwich, and 23,082 people living
outside the Borough work in the Borough. Expressed in
percentage figures, 24.3 per cent, of the occupied male population
and 30 per cent, of the occupied female population
work outside the Borough.