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, 1899
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Table No. 2.
Districts. | Population (calcultd.) to the middle of 1898. | Deaths. | Death-rate per 1,000 including Hospitals and Schools. Greenwich Union and Infirmary. | Death-rate per 1,000 excluding Hospitals and Schools, Greenwich Union and Infirmary. | Zymotic Death-rate. | Infant Mortality. | Birth-rate. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Greenwich, East | 32,106 | 505 | |||||
„ West | 22,007 | 362 | |||||
„ Workhouse | 1,068 | 502 | |||||
„ Infirmary | 528 | ||||||
„ Hospital | |||||||
Schools | 1,081 | 3 | 25.9 | 13.8 | 3.2 | 5.9 | 30.5 |
Royal Naval College | 199 | ||||||
Seamen's Hospital | 255 | 123 | |||||
Miller „ | 23 | ||||||
Outlying Institutions ... | 103 | ||||||
Estimated Increase of Population since 1891 | 5,198 | ||||||
Total | 62,442 | 1,621 | 25.9 | 13.8 | 3.2 | 5.9 | 30.5 |
Table No. 3. ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
1898. | Scarlatina. | Measles. | Whooping Congh. | Small Pox. | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Fever. | Diphtheria. | Puerperal Fever. | Total. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
January | ... | 1 | 5 | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
February | 1 | 6 | 4 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | 13 |
March | ... | 8 | 6 | ... | ... | ... | 2 | 1 | 17 |
April | ... | 5 | 10 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 15 |
May | ... | 5 | 2 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 8 | |
June | ... | 5 | 5 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 10 |
July | ... | 1 | 2 | ... | 4 | ... | 2 | ... | 9 |
August | ... | ... | 6 | ... | 43 | ... | 2 | ... | 51 |
September | ... | ... | 2 | ... | 29 | 3 | ... | 34 | |
October | 2 | ... | 1 | ... | 3 | 2 | 1 | ... | 9 |
November | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | 2 |
December | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 |
3 | 31 | 44 | ... | 85 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 189 | |
Outlying Institutions | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 10 | 4 | ... | 16 |
Grand Total | 4 | 31 | 45 | ... | 85 | 21 | 12 | 7 | 205 |
Zymotic Death-rate | 3-2 per 1,000. |