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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

Greenwich 1910

The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1910

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Table: AN ANALYSIS OF DEATH CAUSES. All death causes are conveniently arranged under various headings, according to the Registrar-General's classification of diseases, and the following table, a summary of the larger table in the Appendix, shows the death rates for residents, and in fact all persons belonging to the Borough (although some of them may have died in Institutions in other Boroughs, or even outside the County of London altogether), per 1,000 of the population living in the Borough.

AN ANALYSIS OF DEATH CAUSES. All death causes are conveniently arranged under various headings, according to the Registrar-General's classification of diseases, and the following table, a summary of the larger table in the Appendix, shows the death rates for residents, and in fact all persons belonging to the Borough (although some of them may have died in Institutions in other Boroughs, or even outside the County of London altogether), per 1,000 of the population living in the Borough.

1910.1910.
Infective Diseases—Local Diseases—continued.
Epidemic1.54Digestive System0.52
Sporadic0.00Lymphatic0.02
Venereal0.05Urinary System0.36
Septic0.12Reproductive System0.04
Malarial0.05Parturition0.04
Tuberculosis1.21Bones and Joints0.04
Parasitic Diseases0.00Integumentary System0.00
Dietic Diseases0.03External Causes—
Constitutional Diseases0.90
Accidents0.28
Developmental Diseases2.04
Homicideo.oo
Looal Diseases—Suicide0.05
Nervous System1.01Ill-defined Causes—
Organs of Special Sense0.01Sudden Deatho.oo
Circulatory System1.19
Other ill-defined and not specified causes0.00
Respiratory System1.94