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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 sixteenth Annual
Report, for the 52 weeks ending December 31st, 1898.
I have to report that 1,907 Births (948 Males and 959
Females) were registered in the Greenwich District, details of
which appear in the tabulated form No. 1.
The number of Deaths was 1,621 (909 Males and 712
Females) equivalent to an annual rate of 25.9 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 13.8 excluding these Public Institutions, details
of which appear in the tabulated form No. 2.
The number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic class was
205, equivalent to an annual rate of 3 .2 per 1,000 persons living,
details of which appear in the tabulated form No. 3.