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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 1904

The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1904

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Table: All death causes are conveniently arranged under various headings, and the the following table, a summary of the larger tables in the Appendix, shows the death rates for residents, and in fact all persons belonging to the Borough, although some of them may have died in Institutions in other Boroughs, or even outside the County of London altogether, per 1,000 of the population living in the Borough, according to the Registrar-General's classification of diseases.

All death causes are conveniently arranged under various headings, and the the following table, a summary of the larger tables in the Appendix, shows the death rates for residents, and in fact all persons belonging to the Borough, although some of them may have died in Institutions in other Boroughs, or even outside the County of London altogether, per 1,000 of the population living in the Borough, according to the Registrar-General's classification of diseases.

1904.1904.
Infective Diseases—Local Diseases—continued.
Epidemic2.43Digestive System0.88
Sporadic.02Lymphatic0.02
Venereal.03Urinary System0.33
Septic.08Reproductive System0.09
Malarial.05Parturition0.06
Tuberculosis1.67Bones and Joints0.01
Parasitic DiseasesIntegumentary System-
Dietetic Diseases0.07External Causes—
Constitutional Diseases0.98Accidents0.48
Developmental Diseases2.28Homicide-
Local Diseases—Suicide0.08
Nervous System1.23Ill-defined Causes —
Organs of Special Sense.05
Circulatory System1.36Sudden Death-
Respiratory System2.11Other ill-defined and not specified causes-

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REMARKS ON VARIOUS DEATH CAUSES.
INFECTIVE DISEASES.
Epidemic. The deaths due to this class of diseases have
been 246, equalling a death rate of 2.43 per 1,000. This figure
compares very badly with 168 the total deaths, and 1 69 the death
rate, for the corresponding diseases last year. This falling off