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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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Table No. 6. Return of Deaths Registered during the year 1915.
| Registration Districts. | Sex. | Deaths under 1 year. | Total. | East Ward. | North-Ward. | North-West Ward. | South-Ward. | South-East Ward. | South-West Ward. | South-Eastern Hospital. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex. | Deaths under 1 year. , | Total. | Sex. | Deaths under 1 year. | Total. | Sex. | Deaths under 1 year. | Total. | Sex. | Deaths under 1 year. | Total. | Sex. | Deaths under 1 year. | Total, | Sex. | Deaths under 1 year. | Total. | Sex. | Deaths under 1 year. | Total. | ||||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F' | H. | F. | M. | F. | |||||||||||||||||
| Deaths registered in the Borough | 697 | 709 | 328 | 1406 | 168 | 175 | 117 | 343 | 145 | 125 | 69 | 270 | 117 | 111 | 69 | 228 | 54 | 70 | 16 | 124 | 75 | 62 | 29 | 137 | 73 | 88 | 21 | 161 | 65 | 78 | 7 | 143 |
| Deaths in Outlying Institutions | 399 | 301 | 69 | 700 | 119 | 85 | 20 | 204 | 100 | 74 | 22 | 174 | 65 | 53 | 10 | 118 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 30 | 65 | 42 | 6 | 107 | 33 | 34 | 7 | 67 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Total number of Deaths of Residents of the Borough | 1028 | 934 | 391 | 1962 | 287 | 263 | 137 | 550 | 241 | 199 | 92 | 440 | 185 | 165 | 79 | 350 | 70 | 82 | 20 | 152 | 141 | 104 | 35 | 245 | 104 | 121 | 28 | 225 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
144 Deaths registered in the Borough were of non-parishioners. Of these 132 occurred in the South-Eastern Hospital. In the last line of the above
Table, the 11 deaths of residents of Deptford occurring in the South-Eastern Hospital have been allocated to their respective Wards, and the deaths
of all non-parishioners excluded.