[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Wokingham Borough.

  • Wokingham (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Wokingham Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BOROUGH OF WOKINGHAM. URBAN SANITARY AUTHORITY. j0[nnual JLcptfrt of tljc £QcMml Officer of Jicaltff FOR THE YEAR 1893. Pursuant to the Regulations of the Local Government Board. . r.—rnr-r~m~* -^nn-ar— . - - - -, — ' , —-|-iiW— Sm Town Hall, Reading, March, 1894. To the Wokingham Urban Sanitary Authority, Gentlemen, I submit to you my Annual Report for the year ended December 31st, 1893. Vital Statistics. The complete Report of the Census of 1891 having recently been published I am now able to record the age- and sex-distribution of the population of your district, and other particulars of interest concerning it. The number of persons living within the district on the 6th April, 1891, was 3254, and consisted of 1539 males and 1715 females. There were 1114 females to 1000 males, the proportion in the whole of Berkshire having been 1034 females to 1000 males, and in the whole of England and Wales 1064 females to 1000 males. The following table shows the area in statute acres, the houses in 1891, the population and males and females in 1881 and 1891, and the number of persons estimated to be living at the middle of 1893, in the Wokingham Urban Sanitary District :— Houses. Population. Name of Locality. Area in Statute Acres. Inhabited. Uninhab¬ ited. Building. Persons. Males. Females. Persons. 1891. 1881. 1891. 1881. 1891. 1881. 1891. Estimated to middle of 1893. Wokingham Urban Sanitary District. *814 706 31 1 3099 3254 1465 1539 1634 1715 3290 * In the census of 1881 this number was 814, but in the census of 1891 it is given as 555.