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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Greenwich 1902
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1902
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upbringing, both by means of literature and lady health visitors,
but whilst the former suggestion was acted upon and circulars distributed
very widely, the latter, and in my opinion more reliable
and practical suggestion, has not up to the present been adopted.
AN ANALYSIS OF DEATH CAUSES.
All death causes are conveniently arranged under various
headings, and the subjoined table, a summary of Table VI.
(Appendix), shews the death rates for residents, per 1,000, living
in the Borough, according to the Registrar-General's classification
of diseases :—
1902.
Infective Diseases—
1.88
Epidemic
-
Sporadic
0.02
Venereal
0.09
Septic
0.08
Malarial
1.74
Tuberculosis
-
Parasitic Diseases
0.06
Dietetic Diseases
0.87
Constitutional Diseases
2.99
Developmental Diseases
Local Diseases —
1.56
Nervous System
1.31
Circulatory System
1902.
Local Diseases—continued.
Respiratory System
2.61
Digestive System
0.85
Urinary System
0.41
Reproductive System
0.07
Bones and Joints
0.02
Integumentary System.
0.02
External Causes —
Accidents
0.51
Homicide
0.02
Suicide
0.09
111-defined Causes —
Sudden Death
-
Organs of Special Sense
0.03
Other ill-defined and not
specified causes
0.04