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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 1903
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1903
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1903.
1903.
Infective Diseases—
Local Diseases—continued.
Epidemic
1.80
Respiratory System
1.86
Sporadic
0.01
Digestive System
0.74
Venereal
0.05
Urinary System
0.40
Septic
0.12
Reproductive System
0.03
Malarial
0.01
Parturition
0.04
Tuberculosis
1.62
Bones and Joints
0.04
Parasitic Diseases
—
Integumentary System
0.01
Dietetic Diseases
0.05
External Causes —
Constitutional Diseases
0.80
Accidents
0.52
Developmental Diseases
2.44
Homicide
—
Local Diseases—
Suicide
0 .09
III-defined Causes—
Nervous System
1.36
Sudden Death
—
Organs of Spinal Sense
0.02
Other ill-defined and not
specified causes
-
Circulatory System
1..2
REMARKS ON VARIOUS DEATH CAUSES.
INFECTIVE DISEASES.
Epidemic. The deaths in the Borough due to the seven
principal Zymotic diseases have been 168, equalling a death rate
of 1.69 per 1,000. This is a slightly worse figure than the
corresponding figure of last year, which was T54 per 1,000. The
Zymotic death rate for the County of London equals 1.75 per
1,000, wherein it varied from 0.58 in Hampstead, 0.86 in the
City of London, 0.96 in Lewisham, and 1.0 in the City of
Westminster, to 2.36 in Stepney, 2.90 in Shoreditch, and 2.99 in
Poplar.