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Woolwich 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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10
THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT
of the
HEALTH OF THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF WOOLWICH.
Year ending 31st December, 1932.
TABLE No. 1.
| Area (acres) | 8,282 |
| Population, estimated to middle of 1932 | 146,900 |
| Population, Census 1931:— | |
| Total (including Military) | 146,881 |
| Civilians | 141,504 |
| Number of inhabited houses, 1931 | 29,870 |
| Number of families or separate occupiers, 1931 | 38,176 |
| Rateable value (April, 1932) | £1,043,941 |
| Sum represented by a penny rate (April, 1932) | £4,349 |
Census.
The Registrar General in the month of June issued a volume relating to the
County of London and giving information regarding the Census which was taken on
the night of April 26th/27th, 1931. The volume deals with population; with
dwellings, rooms and families; with sex, age and marital conditions.
The population of the County of London has declined during the decade and
the decline is more marked than it was in the period 1911-1921. In 21 of the
metropolitan boroughs, compared with 14 in that decade, the population has decreased.
Increases have taken place in Greenwich, Hammersmith, Hampstead, Kensington,
Lewisham, Paddington, Wandsworth and Woolwich. The increase in Lewisham was
26.3%, and in Wandsworth 7.5% It was 4.6% in Woolwich, and less in the other
boroughs mentioned. Even in these boroughs there is evidence of loss of population
by outward movement as in most of them the actual increase is less than it should
have been by calculating the excess of births over deaths.
The following Table, No. 2, shows the number of persons and the sex groupings
in the various wards in 1921 and the corresponding numbers in 1931, the increase
or decrease, the acreage, and the number of persons per acre in 1931.