[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.

  • Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1894
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Credit: [Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE SANITARY CONDITION OF THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF BIRKENHEAD DURING 1891. Report of the Medical Officer of Health to the Health Committee. Area.—The Borough has an Area of 38494 acres, or a little more than six square miles. Population.—The population at midsummer, 1894, as esti- mated by the Registrar-General, was 10-5,627—an addition of 1810 persons to the estimated population at midsummer 1893. This estimate, however, I consider to be about 500 too much on the following grounds. At the time of the Census in 1891 there were 17,495 inhabited houses, and a population of 99,857, giving an average population per house of 5'7 individuals. Since the Census was taken however, there had been 80 houses demolished and 361 houses built, up to midsummer, 1894, or taking tho one from the other an addition of 281 houses to the total number in the Borough. After deducting the number of uninhabited houses at June, 1894, from the total number of houses in the Borough, we arrive at the total number of inhabited houses at midsummer, 1894, viz., 18,442 as com- pared with 17,495 at the time of the Census. Now if we allow the same number of persons per house as was found to exist at the time of the Census return, viz., 5 7, and multiply this by the number of inhabited houses we shall arrive at a more accurate estimate of the population than by the method