[Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.

  • Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1915
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Credit: [Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Erected Abolished Net Gain 1909 293 77 216 1910 255 7 248 1911 Average 232 9 223 1912 per year 273 44 229 1913 253 339 67 272 1914 246 18 228 1915 136 -32 104 1774 254 1520 Totals.. . 9340 930 8410 *This includes 26 back to back houses conrerted into 13 through houses. VITAL AND MORTAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR Area—The Borough has an area of 3850 acres, or a little more than six square miles. Population.—The Census was taken in England and Wales on April 2nd, 1911, and showed the number of persons in Birkenhead to be 130,794, being 19,879 more than the number shown in the Census taken on April 1st, 1901. For the purposes of this Annual Report an estimate is required of the number of persons living at Midsummer, 1915, and I have estimated that on the 30th June of that year the population was 140,291, and on this estimate have based the following statistics. At the time of the 1901 Census the number of inhabited houses was 19,744, giving an average number of persons per house of 5 6; the number of houses in the Borough at the time of the 1911 Census was 24,343 giving an average number of persons per house of 5-3. I am indebted to the Chief Constable for the following Return of uninhabited property in the Borough of Birkenhead for the half year ending 3l8t December, 1915 :—