Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report for the year ending 25th March, 1898
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Table No. 2.
Districts. | Population (calcultd.)to the middle of 1897. | Deaths. | Death-rate per 1,000 including Hospitals and Schools, Greenwich Union and Infirmary. | Death-rate per 1,000 excluding Hospitals and Schools, Greenwich Union and Infirmary. | Zymotic Death-rate. | Infantile Mortality. | Birth-rate. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Greenwich, East | 32,106 | 404 | 23 | 11•9 | 2•3 | 4•7 | 30•5 |
„ West | 22,007 | 331 | |||||
„ Workhouse | 1,068 | 472 | |||||
,, Infirmary | 528 | ||||||
,, Hospital | |||||||
Schools | 1,081 | 2 | |||||
Royal Naval College | 199 | 3 | |||||
Seamen's Hospital | 255 | 114 | |||||
Miller | 13 | ||||||
Outlying Institutions | 83 | ||||||
Estimated Increase of Population since 1891 | 4,452 | . | |||||
Total | 61,697 | 1,422 | 23 | 11•9 | 2•3 | 4•7 | 30•5 |
Table No. 3. ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
1897. | Scarlet Fever. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Small Pox. | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Enteric Fever. | Diphtheria. | Puerperal Fever. | Total. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
January | ... | ... | 3 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 4 |
February | ... | ... | 6 | ... | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
March | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 2 | 3 | ... | 5 |
April | ... | 2 | 2 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | 6 |
May | ... | 5 | ... | ... | 2 | ... | ... | ... | 7 |
June | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | 1 | 3 |
July | ... | ... | ... | ... | 11 | 1 | ... | ... | 12 |
August | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 48 | 1 | ... | ... | 50 |
September | ... | ... | ... | ... | 12 | ... | ... | ... | 12 |
October | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 2 |
November | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 3 |
December | ... | 2 | 6 | ... | 3 | ... | ... | ... | 11 |
Outlying Institutions. | 2 | 9 | 19 | ... | 81 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 127 |
3 | 1 | ... | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | ... | 17 | |
5 | 10 | 19 | 1 | 82 | 8 | 16 | 3 | 144 |
Zymotic Death-rate 2•3 per 1,000.