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REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Year 1907.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors.
Sir and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you the Annual Report on the
vital statistics and sanitary work for the Registration Year 1907,
52 weeks ending December 28th, 1907.
POPULATION.
The population of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford was
estimated at 116,510 at the middle of the year 1907.
BIRTHS.
During the 52 weeks ending the 28th December, 1907, 3,323
births (1,615 males and 1,708 females) were registered, compared
with 3,260 in 1906, 3,290 in 1905, and 3,265 in 1904.
The birth-rate in the Borough was equivalent to an annual
rate of 28.5 per 1,000 of the population as compared with 28.2 for
1906 and 28.7 for the two preceding years and with an average of
28.5 per 1,000 for past ten years.
The birth-rate in London was 25.8 per 1,000, compared with
26.7, 27.l and 27.9 for the years 1906, 1905 and 1904 respectively,
with an average of 28.6 per 1,000 for the past ten years.
The birth-rate in England and Wales was 26.3 per 1,000, in the
76 great towns 27.0, and that in the 142 smaller towns 25.7 per 1,000.