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Public Health and Housing Department,
Royal Hill, Greenwich.
May, 1903
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich.
Gentelmen,
I have the honour to submit herewith, in accordance with
the requirement of the Local Government Board, the Annual
Report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Metropolitan
Borough of Greenwich for the year 1902.
The mortality statistics contained herein are for this year,
on the whole, of a gratifying and more satisfactory character
than those for last year. The Birth Rate of 28.13 per 1,000
is about the average for the County of London. The recorded
Death Rate of 15.28 per 1,000 estimated population compares
favourably with 17.2 per 1,000 that of London, as a whole ; also
with 17.4 per 1,000 that of the seventy-six large English towns. The
Zymotic Death Rate of 1.54 per 1,000 is some 30 per cent, below
the County average. When the figures relating to the different
divisions of the Borough are taken separately, and comparison