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Public Health and Housing Department,
Royal Hill, Greenwich.
March, 1904.
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit herewith, in accordance with the
requirements of the Local Government Board, the Annual
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the Metropolitan
Borough of Greenwich, for the year 1903.
The mortality statistics for the year are of a very satisfactory
character indeed. The Birth Rate of 27.15 per 1,000 is slightly
under the rate for the County of London as a whole, which equals
28 5 per 1,000. This County Rate, however, is lower than that
recorded in any of the 10 preceding years. The recorded Death
Rate of 13.23 per 1,000 of the estimated population, compares
favourably with 15.1, the Death Rate for the County of London
as a whole, also with 16.0 per 1,000, the Death Rate for the 76
Large English Towns. The Zymotic Death Rate of 1.69 per
1,000 is also slightly below the County average, viz., 1.75 per 1,000.