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REMARKS ON VARIOUS DEATH CAUSES.—
INFECTIVE DISEASES.
Epidemic. The deaths in the Borough due to the seven
principal Zymotic diseases have been 153, equalling a death rate
of 1.54 per 1,000, comparing with 2.21 in the County of London,
wherein it varied from 0.81 in Hampstead, and 1.17 in Stoke
Newington, up to 3.31 in Stepney, and 3.53 in Shoreditch. Locally
the variations were from 0.61 in Kidbrooke, 1.17 in Charlton, 1.19
in West Greenwich, and 1.67 in East Greenwich, up to 3.06 in St.
Nicholas, wherein again is shown the great excess in St. Nicholas,
but it must be mentioned that there is a slight improvement upon
last year's figures.
Small-pox, During this year, the outbreak of Small-pox,
which was mentioned in my last Annual Report as having commenced,
continued and occasioned the death of 22 Greenwich
residents, 21 deaths occurring at the Metropolitan Asylums Board
Small-pox Hospitals, and 1 at home before removal could be
effected; this gives a death rate of 0.22 per 1,000 living. Of these
15 belong to East Greenwich, 1 to West Greenwich, 1 to St.
Nicholas, and 5 to Charlton.
The ages at death and conditions as to vaccination are shown
in the following Table: —