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Town Hall,
Woolwich,
9th March, 1897.
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 1896.
Mortality There have been 879 deaths during the year: of this
Stat sties
number 392 occurred in the Dockyard Registration SubDistrict,
and 487 in the Arsenal Registration Sub-District.
The gross death-rate for the year, estimated upon a population of
41,338, is 20.9 per thousand.
Of these deaths, 192 took place in various medical institutions
(Table VII.) outside the district; in the appended statistical tallies they
have, however, been allotted to their proper registration sub-districts,
and calculated as ii taking place within the sanitary area of Woolwich.
Nineteen 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, 1896, will be obtained,
viz., 860.
Death Rate The correoted death-rate is, therefore, 20.4 per thousand.