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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 1896

Annual report for the year ending 25th March, 1897

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Table: Table No. 2.

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, East32,106447}
,, West22,007333}
„ Workhouse .1,068}416}
,, Infirmary528}
,, Hospital Schools1,081}3}
Royal Naval College199}24.312.84.04.630.6
Seamen's Hospital255154}
Miller ,,20}
Outlying Institutions105}
Estimated Increase of Population since 18913,5351,478}
Total60,7792,95624.312.84.04.630.6

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Zymotic Death-rate 4 0 per 1,000.

Table: Table No. 3. ZYMOTIC DISEASES.

Table No. 3. ZYMOTIC DISEASES.

1896.Scarlet Fever.Measles.Whooping Cough.Small Pox.Diarrhoea and Dysentery.Enteric Fever.Diphtheria.Puerperal Fever.Total.
January...54.........7117
February...33......22313
March...55.........2113
April...166.........4...26
May...48.........2...14
June365.........1...15
July...42...1021...19
August151...18...4...29
September......6...6...3116
October112...214112
November253......22115
December211...1...2...7
95546...377348196
Outlying Institutions.122...11825...49
21574613815598245