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DEATHS.
The total number of deaths registered during the period was
1,522, of which 834 were males, and 688 females. This gives a
crude death rate for the Borough of 15.28 per 1,000, thus favourably
comparing with 17.2 the death rate for the County of London
as a whole. In the County the lowest death rates were 10.8 in
Hampstead, 13.4 in Stoke Newington, 13.5 in Wandsworth, 13.6
in Lewisham, 14.6 in Paddington, 15.0 in Hackney and Battersea,
15.1 in Woolwich, and 15.2 in Greenwich; whilst the highest rates
were 21.3 in Holborn, 21 .4 in Southwark, and 22.9 in Finsbury.
It will thus be seen that, judging from a comparison of the crude
death rates, this Borough stands ninth on the list.
Locally, the death rate varied from 6.14 in Kidbrooke, 13.59
in Charlton, 14.06 in East Greenwich, 17.30 in West Greenwich,
to 23.59 in St. Nicholas.
The remarks made last year in reference to the high death
rate of St. Nicholas Parish apply again with equal force this year
for the crude death rate of 23.59 per 1,000 population, compares
very unfavourably both with the total Greenwich crude death
rate of 15.28 per 1,000, and also with the corresponding rate for
the County of London, which is 17.2 per 1,000.
As the tables showing the different constitution of the population
living in the various districts of the Borough, disclose the
fact that the number of children and young persons living in the
Parish of St. Nicholas is not in the same proportion to the
remainder of the population as pertains throughout the Borough
generally, and it is a well-known fact that persons under 10 years
of age, and particularly children under 5 years of age, are more