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Penge 1909

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge]

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Table: TABLE I.Vital Statistics of District during 1909 and previous years.

TABLE I.

Vital Statistics of District during 1909 and previous years.

Year.Population estimated to middle of each Year.BirthsTotal Deaths Registered in the DistrictTotal Deaths in Public Institutions in the District.Deaths of Non. residents registered in Public Institu. tions in the District.Deaths of Residents registered in Public Institu. tions beyond the District.Net Deaths at all Ages belonging to the District.
Number.Rate*Under I Year of Age.At all Ages.
NumberRate per 1.ooo Births registeredNumber.Rate*Number.Rate*
1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.13.
1899...465.........289..................
1900...481.........256............
190122,46845720.360131.2927112.0......3230313.4
190222,82247620.867140.7525010.9......3728712.5
190322,96547620.756117.642149.3......37251109
190423,20648320.862128.36254109......5731113.4
190523,44045919.558126.3625410.8214730112.8
190623,67841617.652125.002349.8723927111.4
190723,91839016.340102.561968.1......422389.9
190824,16143417.92046.0817773......392168.9
Averages for years 1899-1908...453.........239..................
190924,40839316146117.042329.5......4427611.3
*Rates in Columns 4, 8, and 13 calculated per 1,000 of estimated population.

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Note.—The deaths included in column 7 of this Table are the whole of those registered during the year as having
actually occurred within the district. The deaths included in column 12 are the number in column 7, corrected by
the subtraction of the number in column 10 and the addition of the number in column 11.
By the term " Non-residents" is meant persons brought into the district on account of sickness or infirmity, and
dying in public institutions there; and by the term " Residents" is meant persons who have been taken out of the
district on account of sickness or infirmity, and have died in public institutions elsewhere.

Table: A list of the institutions in respect of the deaths in which corrections have been made are given in the following table.

A list of the institutions in respect of the deaths in which corrections have been made are given in the following table.

Area of District in Acres (exclusive of area covered by water)770Total population at all ages22,468At census of 1901.
Number of inhabited houses3,811
Average number of persons per house5.89

Table: TABLE II.

TABLE II.

I. Institutions within the District receiving sick and infirm persons from outside the District.11. Institutions outside the District receiving sick and infirm persons from the District.III. Other Institutions, the deaths in which have been distributed among several localities in the District.
Nil.1. Workhouse Infirmary, Croydon.Nil.
2. Borough Hospital, Croydon.
3. Croydon Borough Isolation Hospital, Waddon.
4. Croydon and Wimbledon Joint Small-Pox Hospital, Cheam.
The Union Workhouse is not within the District.