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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Walthamstow 1920

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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Table: STATISTICAL AND OTHER INFORMATION.

STATISTICAL AND OTHER INFORMATION.

1920.1919.
Total Area of DistrictAs in 19194343 acres.
Area of land upon which houses are erected„1442½ „
Population—1901 Census95,131
„ 1911 Census124,580
„ „ per acre93
„ 1920 Estimated (Registrar-General for Births)132,912133,008
„ „ Do. for Deaths)132,771127,684
No. of separate occupiers, 1911 Census26,399
No. of persons per "occupation "4.7
No. of houses (including shops, inns, etc., inhabited 20,202, uninhabited 1,197)21,397
No. of flats (inhabited 2,673, empty 276;2,945
No. of unoccupied premises as given by the Overseers:—
Shops.Houses.TenementsTotal.
May, 191513727178486
May, 1914128294125547
19161917, 1918, 1919 and 1920 not enumerated.
Births registered within area3,1412,301
„ „ without area14583
Birth-rate per 1,000 of the population24.7172
Deaths registered within area, excluding nonresidents813869
Deaths registered without area479404
Death-rate9.79.9
Death-rate corrected for age and sex10310.5
Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age197160
Infantile Mortality Rate59969.5
Zymotic Death-rate0.450.59
Infectious Sickness Rate8.46.4
Rateable Value£505,182£499,750
„ 1901£328,756
General District Rate, 19208s.2d.5s. l0d.
„ 19013s.7d.
Total Poor Rate, 192013s.10d.8s. 6d.
19014s.l0d.
Education Rate, 19204s.6½d.2s. 6½d.
„ 19011s.9½d.