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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Table No. 2.
Districts. | Population. | Deaths. | Death-rate per 1,000 including Hospitals and Schools, and Greenwich Union and Infirmary. | Death-rate per 1,000 excluding Hospitals and Schools, and Greenwich Union and Infirmary. | Zymotic Death-rate. | Infantile Mortality. | Birth-rate. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Greenwich, East | 32,106 | 447} | ||||||
,, West | 22,007 | 333} | ||||||
„ Workhouse . | 1,068} | 416} | ||||||
,, Infirmary | 528} | |||||||
,, Hospital Schools | 1,081} | 3} | ||||||
Royal Naval College | 199} | 24.3 | 12.8 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 30.6 | ||
Seamen's Hospital | 255 | 154} | ||||||
Miller ,, | 20} | |||||||
Outlying Institutions | 105} | |||||||
Estimated Increase of Population since 1891 | 3,535 | 1,478} | ||||||
Total | 60,779 | 2,956 | 24.3 | 12.8 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 30.6 |
Zymotic Death-rate 4 0 per 1,000.
Table No. 3. ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
1896. | Scarlet Fever. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Small Pox. | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Enteric Fever. | Diphtheria. | Puerperal Fever. | Total. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
January | ... | 5 | 4 | ... | ... | ... | 7 | 1 | 17 |
February | ... | 3 | 3 | ... | ... | 2 | 2 | 3 | 13 |
March | ... | 5 | 5 | ... | ... | ... | 2 | 1 | 13 |
April | ... | 16 | 6 | ... | ... | ... | 4 | ... | 26 |
May | ... | 4 | 8 | ... | ... | ... | 2 | ... | 14 |
June | 3 | 6 | 5 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 15 |
July | ... | 4 | 2 | ... | 10 | 2 | 1 | ... | 19 |
August | 1 | 5 | 1 | ... | 18 | ... | 4 | ... | 29 |
September | ... | ... | 6 | ... | 6 | ... | 3 | 1 | 16 |
October | 1 | 1 | 2 | ... | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 12 |
November | 2 | 5 | 3 | ... | ... | 2 | 2 | 1 | 15 |
December | 2 | 1 | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | 2 | ... | 7 |
9 | 55 | 46 | ... | 37 | 7 | 34 | 8 | 196 | |
Outlying Institutions. | 12 | 2 | ... | 1 | 1 | 8 | 25 | ... | 49 |
21 | 57 | 46 | 1 | 38 | 15 | 59 | 8 | 245 |