[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Woking U.D.C.

  • Woking (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Woking U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The District is drained by the River Wey, or its tribu¬ taries, in the vicinity of which the subsoil is gravel ancfi alluvium. Number of inhabited houses (1921) : 5,078. Number of families or separate occupiers (1921) : 5,564.. At the time of the 1921 Census there were 158 families (2-8 per cent, of total families), comprising 293 persons, living in single rooms; 352 families (6-3 per cent.), com¬ prising 882 persons, living in two rooms; and 434 families (7-8 per cent.), comprising 1,589 people, living in three' rooms. The corresponding figures for the county were 3-0, 6*6> and 9-3 per cent, respectively. Rateable value: ^234,889. Sum represented by a penny rate : ^841. The District is almost entirelv residential. A consider- J able number of people go to and fro to London daily. Parts of the outlying Wards are still agricultural. The- only industries of any size beyond the building trade are the Accumulator Works, Unwin’s Printing Works and! large Nurseries. The growth of the District has been very rapid, having- increased from 9,786 in 1891 to 16,244 in 1901, to 24,808 ini 1911, and to 26,423 in 1921. Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year. Total. M. F. Births (Legitimate 397 212 185 | Birth Rate 15-5* 11llegitimate 22 9 13 j- Deaths, Civilians only 234 115 119 Death Rate 00 QC Corrected Death Rate: 8-3 per 1,000 population.