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, 1897
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65
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 Fourteenth Annual
Report, for the 53 weeks ending January 2nd, 1897.
I have to report that 1,860 Births (942 Males and 918
Females) were registered in the Greenwich District, details of
which appear in the tabulated form No. 1.
The number of Deaths was 1,478 (825 Males and 653
Females) equivalent to an annual rate of 24.3 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 12.8 excluding these Public Institutions, details
of which appear in the tabulated form No. 2.
The number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Class was
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