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DEATHS.
The number of deaths registered in Deptford during the year was
1,251, equal to a death-rate of 10.6. From this number 156 has to
be deducted, being deaths of non-parishioners which occurred in the
Metropolitan Asylums Board's South-Eastern Hospital, and 548
deaths of parishioners which occurred in public institutions outside
the Borough added, making a total of 1,643, and upon this number
the statistics are based.
The death-rate for the Borough was equal to an annual rate of
13.9 per 1,000 of the population, as compared with 14.0 for 1907,
16.0 for 1906, and 14.3 for 1905 per 1,000 persons living, with an
average of 15.7 for the past 10 years.
The death-rate in England and Wales was 14.7 (the lowest on
record), in the 76 great towns 15.8, in the 142 smaller towns 14.7,
and in the County of London as a whole 13.8.
Deptford compares most favourably with the other Metropolitan
Boroughs with regard to the death-rate. For while Hampstead,
which was 8.5, and was the lowest as one would naturally expect,
Bermondsey was the highest with a death-rate of 18.8. Deptford
being 14th on the list of the 28 Metropolitan Boroughs.
The following table gives the number of deaths which occurred
in each Ward, and the death-rate in each Ward (See also Table 6):—