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55
REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
for
DEPTFORD.
To the Board of Works for the Greenwich District.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my Eleventh Annual
Report on the Vital Statistics and Sanitary Work for the 52 weeks
ending December 30th, 1893.
POPULATION.
The population for Saint Paul's Parish, as enumerated at the
Census in April, 1891, was 101,252, and Saint Nicholas, 6,828,
the estimated population for the middle of the year 1893, arrived
at on the basis of the 1891 Census, and in accordance with the
plan suggested by the Registrar-General, is for Saint Paul, Deptford,
107,378, and the estimated population for Saint Nicholas,
7.078, making a total estimated population for the two Parishes
of 114,456.
BIRTHS.
The number of Births registered during the year 1893 was
3,651 (1,871 males, and 1,780 females), being slightly in excess of
the previous year, and equivalent to an annual rate of 310 per