Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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A STATISTICS & SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA
Area (in acres) 4,343
Population (Registrar General's Estimate, mid year 1962) 108,190
Number of Assessments (31st December 1962) 40,866
Rateable Value (31st December 1962) £1,804,484
Estimated Product of a penny rate (1962/63) £7,290
Census - 1961
The census of the population of England and Wales was taken on
the 23rd April 1961 and from the Preliminary Report I have extracted
the following information. The figures are, of course, provisional,
and relate to the numbers only, by sex. of the population, and to
the numbers of private dwellings and households.
Populat ion
Area 1961 1951 Intercensal Increase
Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Numbers Per cent
Walthamstow 108,788 51,884 56,904 121,135 57,068 64,067 12347 10.2
Private Households and Dwellings
Private Households Private Dwellings
Area 1961 1951 Intercensal 1961 1951 Intercensal
Increase Increase
Number Per cent Number Per cent
Walthamstow 36,972 38,847 1875 4.8 35,537 33,213 2,324 7.0
Population 1931-1961
Population increase per cent per year
Area 1931 1939* 1951 1961 1931-39 1939-51 1951 61
Walthamstow 132,972 130,000 121,135 108,788 -0.28 -0.60 1.06
* 1939 figures are mid year estimatip