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17
REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
for
GREENWICH.
To the Greenwich District Board of Works.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my fifteenth Annual
Report, for the 52 weeks ending January 1st, 1898.
I have to report that 1,885 Births (938 Males and 947
Females) were registered in the Greenwich District, details of
which appear in the tabulated form No. 1.
The number of Deaths was 1,422 (822 Males and 600
Females) equivalent to an annual rate of 23∙0 per 1,000 persons
living (including the Greenwich Union and Infirmary, the
Seamen's, Miller and Cottage Hospitals, the Royal Naval College,
and Greenwich Hospital Schools, and the outlying Public
Institutions), and 11∙9 excluding these Public Institutions, details
of which appear in the tabulated form No 2.
The number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic class was
144, equivalent to an annual rate of 2∙3 per 1,000 persons living,
details of which appear in the tabulated form No. 3.
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