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Walthamstow 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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I —STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE
AREA.
Area (in acres) 4,343
Population (Census, 1931) 132,965
,, (Registrar-General's Estimate, mid-year 1931) 134,420
No. of inhabited houses of resident population (Census,
1921) 25,526
No. of families or separate occupiers (Census, 1921) 29,461
Rateable value £663,694
Sum represented by penny rate £2,700
Population.—The population as shown by the Census taken on
the 26th-27th April, 1931, was 132,965, which ranks thirty-fifth in
England and Wales, including London (City and Administrative
County). The intercensal increase was 3,570 or 2.8 per cent, of
the 1921 population.