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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 1915
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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females. The total number of deaths belonging to Deptford is obtained
by deducting the number of deaths of non-parishioners registered in
the Borough, viz.: 144, of which number 132 occurred in the Metropolitan
Asylums Board's South Eastern Hospital, making 1262 deaths
actually belonging to Deptford. To this number we must add 700
deaths of parishioners which occurred in public institutions outside the
Borough, making a total of 1,962, of which 1,028 were males and 934
females, and upon these figures the statistics are based.
The death-rate for the Borough was equal to an annual rate of
17.8 per 1,000 of the population, as compared with 14.6 for 1914,
15.5 for 1913, and 13.2 for 1912, the average for the past five years
being 14.6.
The 700 deaths outside the borough were distributed as follows:—
| Asylums | 51 |
| Poor Law Institutions :— | |
| Greenwich Union | 386 |
| Other than Greenwich | 32 |
| Hospitals :— | |
| Guy's | 44 |
| Seamen's | 7 |
| Miller | 35 |
| East London (for children) | 12 |
| St. Bartholomew's | 1 |
| St. Thomas' | 11 |
| London | 1 |
| Metropolitan Asylums Board | 17 |
| St. John's | 2 |
| Evelina | 12 |
| Other Hospitals | 55 |
| Other places | 34 |
| Total | 700 |
The following table gives the number of deaths belonging to each Ward, and the death rates for each Ward.
| Ward. | Deaths. | Death Rate per 1,000. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Females. | Total. | ||
| East Ward | 287 | 263 | 550 | 25.8 |
| North Ward | 241 | 199 | 440 | 18.3 |
| North-West Ward | 185 | 165 | 350 | 14.8 |
| South Ward | 70 | 82 | 152 | 12.4 |
| South-East Ward | 141 | 104 | 245 | 19.7 |
| South-West Ward | 104 | 121 | 225 | 13.5 |