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9
THIRTIETH ANNUAL REPORT
on the
HEALTH OF THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF WOOLWICH.
Year ending 31st December, 1930.
SECTION I.—GENERAL STATISTICS.
TABLE No. 1.
Area (acres) 8,282
Population, 1929:—
Total (including military) 146,800
Civilians 141,600
Population, Census, 1921:—
Total (including military) 140,389
Civilians 136,307
Number of Inhabited Houses, 1921 26,048
Number of Families or Separate Occupiers, 1921 33,647
Rateable Value (April, 1930) £960,210
Sum represented by a Penny Rate (October, 1930) £4,000
Social Conditions.—In 1930, the London County Council made an Order
unifying the three Civil Parishes of Woolwich, Plumstead and Eltham into one
parish, which is now known as the Parish of the Borough of Woolwich.
The Borough is situated in the South.East of the Administrative County of
London, and is bounded on the North, East and South by the County boundaries,
and on the West by the Metropolitan Boroughs of Lewisham and Greenwich. It
covers an area of 8,282 statute acres and includes a small area (North Woolwich)
north of the Thames. The River Thames covers, within the borough, 645 acres.
The Borough is divided into the two Parliamentary Divisions of East Woolwich
and West Woolwich, and is further sub.divided into 14 wards. The Borough may
be described as one of the suburban working.class Metropolitan Boroughs. Much
of it is unbuilt on, and the number of persons per acre varies from 11 in Eltham
to 31 in Woolwich, the general average of the Borough being 19.