Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1902
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liable to disease and death.than persons at adult ages, it seemed
to me that the explanation of the high death rate of St. Nicholas
was to be found in this fact, but on working out the matter very
carefully, I am not confirmed in this opinion.
I have endeavoured to find the figure which should be
applied to the crude or recorded death rates of the constituent
Parishes of this Borough, in order to place them upon an exactly
similar and strictly comparable basis as regards this difficulty of
age and sex distribution of the population, thereby being able to
make the exact allowance which the Parish of St. Nicholas needs
to compensate for the excessive number of young children
enumerated in that Parish.
I have taken the average figures for the whole County of
London for the year 1901, as the data with which this local comparison
should be made.
Upon which basis the following table has been compiled :—
District. | Standard Death Rate. | Factor for Corrections for Age and Sex Distribut'n | Crude Death Rate, 1902. | Corrected Death Rate, 1902. | Comparative Mortality Figure, 1902. (Greenwich 1,000.) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
London,l901 | 17.31 | ||||
Greenwich | 17.70 | 0.9658 | 15.28 | 14.78 | 1000 |
East Greenwich | 18.24 | 0.9350 | 14.06 | 14.24 | 963 |
West Greenwich | 18.23 | 0.9376 | 17.30 | 15.85 | 1072 |
St. Nicholas | 17.72 | 0.9648 | 23.59 | 22.01 | 1489 |
Charlton | 16.58 | 1.031 | 13.59 | 12.65 | 855 |
Kidbrooke | 13.07 | 1.307 | 6.14 | 4.66 | 315 |