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Summary of General Statistics.
Area (acres), 4,706.
Population-
Census, 1921, 300,860.
Estimated, 1925, 318,500.
Number of inhabited houses (1921), 47,995.
Number of families or separate occupiers (1921), 68,569.
Rateable value—
Poor Rate, £1,447,680.
General District Rate, £1,350,003.
Sum represented by a penny rate—General District Rate, £5,600.
Amount of Poor Law Relief, £797,249 8s. 8½d.
Chief Occupations of Inhabitants.
West Ham is a typical industrial Borough. Large
factories abound on the river frontages west and south; railway
works employing thousands of regular hands are located in
the north, and large docks—the staple support of casual
labour—intersect the south. The rest of the area may be said
to form the dormitory of artizans, clerks and others whose
daily work is carried on in London and district, together with
the local shops and retail businesses necessary for the welfare
of their families. There is no particular industry calculated
to specially affect the public health.
Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year
1 he Births during 1925 numbered 7,017, classified as follows:—
Total. Male. Female.
Legitimate 6,848 3,505 3,343
Illegitimate 169 94 75
giving a Birth Rate of 22.03 (Eng. and Wales 18.3.)