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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Greenwich 1897

Annual report for the year ending 25th March, 1898

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Table: Table No. 2.

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, East32,1064042311•92•34•730•5
„ West22,007331
„ Workhouse1,068472
,, Infirmary528
,, Hospital
Schools1,0812
Royal Naval College1993
Seamen's Hospital255114
Miller13
Outlying Institutions83
Estimated Increase of Population since 18914,452.
Total61,6971,4222311•92•34•730•5

Table: Table No. 3. ZYMOTIC DISEASES.

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...212112
March...............23...5
April...22......1...16
May...5......2.........7
June............11...13
July............111......12
August......1...481......50
September............12.........12
October1.........1.........2
November1...1...1.........3
December...26...3.........11
Outlying Institutions.2919...81763127
31...11110...17
510191828163144

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Zymotic Death-rate 2•3 per 1,000.