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Town Hall.
Woolwich,
2nd April, 1894.
To the Chairman and Members of the Woolwich Local Board
of Health.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my report upon the sanitary
condition of Woolwich during the year 1893.
Mortality There have been 848 deaths, of this number 401 occurred
in the Dockyard Registration Sub-District, and 417 in
the Arsenal Registration Sub-District.
The gross death rate for the year, estimated upon a population of
41854 1s 20.2 per thousand.
Of these deaths 176 took place in various Medical Institutions
(Table 7) outside the district, in the appended statistical tables they
have however been allotted to their proper registration sub-districts,
and calculated as if taking place within the sanitary area of
Woolwich. Twenty deaths occurring within the district were of
persons not rightly belonging to Woolwich, if these be deducted from
the total deaths, the correct number of deaths occurring in Woolwich
during the twelve months ending the 31st December, 1893, will be
obtained, viz., 828.
Death Rate. The corrected death-rate is therefore 19.7 per thousand,
as against 19.5 in 1892, and 21.6 in 1891.
I have appended tables (Nos. 9 and 10) which shows comparatively
the position taken by Woolwich in this respect as regards other large
towns, and the various Metropolitan Sanitary Districts,