Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1903
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The figures relating to the different constituent parts of the
Borough are as follows:—
Districts.
Birth
Rate.
Death
Rate.
Percentage
of deaths
under one
year of
age.
Infantile
Mortality
per
1,000
Births.
Zymotic
Death
Rate.
Diarrhoea
Death
Rate.
Consumption
Death
Rate.
East Greenwich.
28.6
13.58
26%
132
1.98
0.96
1.07
West Greenwich
26.8
14.96
232
127
1.69
0.49
1.31
St. Nicholas
36.2
16.54
31%
143
2.40
0.66
1.73
Charlton
24.5
10.50
252
108
0.99
0.31
1.04
Kidbrooke
4.3
4.03
-
—
—
—
0.31
Whole Borough
27.15
13.23
26%
128
1.69
0.67
1.15
Attack Rates of the various notifiable diseases per 1,000
living in the several districts:—
Districts.
Small-pox.
Diphtheria.
Scarlet
Fever.
Erysipelas.
Typhoid
Fever.
Puerperal
Fever.
East Greenwich
0.04
1.6
1.4
0.7
0.5
0.06
West Greenwich.
—
3.1
1.7
0.5
0.4
0.08
St. Nicholas
0.26
4.07
1.4
1.9
0.1
0.13
Charlton
—
0.5
1.6
0.4
0.4
0.05
Kidbrooke
—
2.7 .
3.4
0.3
—.
—
Whole Borough .
0.004
2.08
1.64
0.73
0.44
0.07
In conclusion, I have again to tender my best thanks to each
and all of the Members of the Council, and the Public Health
Committee in particular, for their continued kindness and support,
and also to each individual Member of my Staff for the efficient
manner in which their duties have been performed.
I am, Gentlemen,
Yours respectfully,
Ernest G. Annis.