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Local Morbidity
I am indebted to the Regional Controller of the Department of
Health and Social Security (London South Region) for the following
statistics relating to claims for sickness and industrial injury
benefits during 1970.
Local offices of the Ministry of Social Security concerned mainly
with the London Borough of Greenwich are those located at
Deptford, Eltham and Woolwich. Regions covered by these offices
are, unfortunately, based upon postal districts and not upon local
authority areas but, nevertheless, for most practical purposes the
figures quoted are reasonably representative of the Borough's
morbidity, subject to the following considerations:—
(a) Figures refer to new claims only—they do not indicate the
curent "live load" which includes a good deal of longterm
sickness.
(b) Figures relate only to persons insured for sickness benefit.
Sickness, therefore, in children, the aged, the nonemployed
and "exempt" married women is not included.
(c) Injury benefit figures relate to all employed persons.

Compared with 1969, new claims to sickness benefit fell by
16.3% and those for industrial injury by no less than 27.6%.