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ably with 15.1, the death rate for the County of London, and 15.7
the death rate for the 76 large towns.
In the County of London the lowest crude death rates
amongst the various Metropolitan Boroughs were 9.3 in Hampstead,
11.7 in Lewisham, 12.6 in Wandsworth, 12.8 in Woolwich,
12.9 in Stoke Newington, 13.27 in Greenwich, 13.3 in Paddington,
and 13.5 in the City of Westminster; while the highest rates were
17.5 in Holborn, 17.6 in Poplar, 17.7 in Stepney, 18.5 in Southwark,
18.6 in Bethnal Green, 18.7 in Bermondsey, 19.0 in
Finsbury, and 19.7 in Shoreditch.
Locally, the death rate varied from 4.23 in Kidbrooke, 12.39
in Charlton, 12.64 in East Greenwich, and 14.41 in West Greenwich,
to 19.53 in St. Nicholas.
A comparison of the death rates of these different districts
for the years 1903, 1904, and 1905 shows that, whereas each
district was slightly worse in 1904 than in 1903, in this year
(1905), whilst two of the districts, namely, Charlton and St.
Nicholas, are worse still, the other three districts, East Greenwich,
West Greenwich and Kidbrooke, have improved. The improvement
in Kidbrooke was from 4.61 per 1,000 in 1904 to 4.23 per
1,000 in 1905; this latter figure, however, is not so good as 4.03,
which was the death rate in 1903. East Greenwich, which had
declined from 13.58 in 1903 to 14.71 in 1904, a falling off of 7
per cent., has this year improved to 12.64 per 1,000, an improvement
upon last year of 14 per cent., and is, in fact, the lowest
death rate recorded in East Greenwich since the formation of the
Borough. West Greenwich, which also had declined from 14.96
in 1903 to 15.88 in 1904 has improved during this year to 14.41,
being some 9 per cent.; this present death rate in West