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Town Hall,
Woolwich.
26th February, 1895.
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 1894.
Mortality
Statistics.
There have been 769 deaths during the year, of this
number 326 occured in the Dockyard Registration SubDistrict
and 443 in the Arsenal Registration Sub-District.
The gross death rate for the year estimated upon a population of
41,417 is 18.5 per thousand.
Of these deaths 190 took place in various medical institutions (Table
7) outside the district, in the appended statistical tables they have however
been alloted to their proper registration sub-districts, and calculated
as if taking place within the sanitary area of Woolwich. Fourteen deaths
occuring 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, 1894, will be obtained, viz., 755.
Death Rate.
The corrected death rate is therefore 18.2 per thousand.
The following table shows the corrected death rate yearly, since the
appointment of a Medical Officer of Health for the district, on the 29th
October, 1889.
1890 20.5
1891 21.6
1892 19.5
1893 19.5
1894 18.2