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REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the Year 1906.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors.
Sir and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you the Annual Report on the
vital statistics and sanitary work for the Registration Year 190G,
52 weeks ending December 29th, 1906.
POPULATION.
The population of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford was
estimated at 115,495 at the middle of the year 1906.
BIRTHS.
During the 52 weeks ending the 29th December, 1906, 3,260
births (1,662 of males and 1,598 of females) were registered, compared
with 3,290 in 1905, and 3,265 in 1904.
The birth.rate in the Borough was equivalent to an annual
rate of 28.22 per 1,000 of the population as compared with 28.73 for
the two preceding years and with an average of 32.5 per 1,000 for
past ten years.
The birth.rate in London was 26.7 per 1,000, compared with
27.1 and 27.9 for the years 1905 and 1901 respectively, with an
average of 28.9 per 1,000 for the past ten years.
The birth.rate in England and Wales was 27.0 per 1,000, in the
76 great towns 27.9, and that in the 142 smaller towns 26.5 per 1,000.