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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Deptford 1908

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1908

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Table:

Ward.Deaths.Death Rate per 1,000.
Males.Females.Total.
East Ward22821944719.9
North Ward18816835614.2
North West Ward17315532813.6
South Ward688215012.1
South East Ward1007817814.6
South West Ward909418412.7

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(These death-rates are calculated on the census population of 1901.)
Death of residents occurring in outlying public institutions are
allocated to their respective Wards according to the addresses of the
deceased as received from the Registrar-General’s Department.
Table No. 19 gives a list of the institutions in which the deaths
occurred.

Table: Table showing the death-rates in Deptford, London and England and Wales since 1898:— DEATHS.

Table showing the death-rates in Deptford, London and England and Wales since 1898:— DEATHS.

Year.Deptford.London.England and Wales.
189815.818.817.5
189916.120.018.2
190017.519.218.2
190116.217.716.9
190216.317.716.2
190315.415.715.4
190416.016.616.2
190514.315.615.2
190616.015.115.4
190714.014.615.0
Average for past 10 years.15.717.116.4
190813.913.814.7

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MORTALITY AT GROUP OF AGES.
The 1,643 deaths recorded during the year included 565 children
under five years of age. The deaths of 381 children occurred under
one year, 184 one to five, 53 between five and fifteen, 63 between
fifteen and twenty-five, 522 between the ages of twenty-five and
sixty-five, and 440 of persons aged upwards of sixty-five.