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HEALTH REPORT FOR 1925.
AREA AND POPULATION.
The Urban District of Beddington and Wallington
has a total area of 3,029 acres, and is divided into six wards.
The number of occupied houses within the District was :
In 1916 3834
In 1917 3861
In 1918 3867
In 1919 3873
In 1920 3870
In 1921 3948
In 1922 4081
In 1923 4248
In 1924 4436
In 1925 4582
The number of occupied houses in the respective Wards
were:—
Beddington North 680
Bedding-ton Central 567
Bedding-ton South 888
2135
Wallington North 652
Wallington Central 1080
Wallington South 715
2447
The average number of persons occupying each house
was 3.6.
The estimated population for 1925 was 16,700.
The number of inmates of the Royal Female Orphanage
is 113.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Births.
During the year 208 Births were registered as belonging
to the District, of which 111 were males and 97 were
females.
The Birth Rate for the year was 12.4 per thousand of
population, as against 13.8 last year.
The Birth Rate for England and Wales in 1925 was
18.3 per thousand of population, and in 1924 18.8.