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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
Area (in acres) 1,131
Population (Census, 1921) 184,404
Population (estimated 1929) 178,500
Population (estimated 1930) Not available
Number of inhabited houses (1921) 26,496
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1930) according to rate
books 26,806
Number of families or separate occupiers (census 1921) 46,727
Rateable value £1,226,506
Sum represented by penny rate £4,961
SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
The northern end of this Borough is rapidly being commercialised,
the industries chiefly represented being the warehouses and food
factories on the river banks ; within this area the printing trade is largely
in evidence, while scattered through the Borough are engineering works
of considerable size and well-known reputation.
The Walworth area is largely inhabited by costermongers, and other
districts are peopled by city workers and artizans. None of these
occupations have any definite effect on the health of the people, which is
quite up to the average for London.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Total.
M.
P.
Live Births—Legitimate
2,889
1,451
1,438
Birth Rate, 168
Live Births — Illegitimate
108
53
55
Still Births 102.
Rate per 1,000 total births 34
Deaths 2,232.
Death rate 12.5
Percentage of total deaths occurring in public institutions 52.5.
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of childbirth —
From sepsis
7
Other causes
2
Death rate of infants under 1 year of age per 1,000 live births:—
Legitimate
57
Illegitimate
74
Total
57