Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1909
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The following table gives the number of deaths which occurred in each Ward, and the death-rates for each Ward. (See also table 6.)
Ward. | Deaths. | Death Rate per 1,000. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Males. | Females. | Total. | ||
East Ward | 214 | 232 | 446 | 19.8 |
North Ward | 185 | 163 | 348 | 13.9 |
North West Ward | 170 | 122 | 292 | 12.1 |
South Ward | 65 | 66 | 131 | 10.3 |
South East Ward | 109 | 77 | 186 | 15.3 |
South West Ward | 92 | 116 | 208 | 14.4 |
(These death-rates are calculated on the census population of 1901.)
Death of residents occurring in outlying public institutions are
allocated to their respective Wards according to the addresses of the
deceased as received from the Registrar-General's Department.
Table No. 19 gives a list of the institutions in which the deaths
occurred.
Table showing the death-rates for Deptford, London and England and Wales since 1899 :— DEATH RATES.
Year. | Deptford. | London. | England and Wales. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1899 | 16.1 | 20.0 | 18.2 | ||
1900 | 17.5 | 19.2 | 18.2 | ||
1901 | 16.2 | 17.7 | 16.9 | ||
1902 | 16.3 | 17.7 | 16.2 | ||
1903 | 15.4 | 15.7 | 15.4 | ||
1904 | 16.0 | 16.6 | 16.2 | ||
1905 | 14.3 | 15.6 | 15.2 | ||
1906 | 16.0 | 15.1 | 15.4 | ||
1907 | 14.0 | 14.6 | 15.0 | ||
1908 | 13.9 | 13.8 | 14.7 | ||
Average for past 10 years. | 15.5 | 16.6 | 16.1 | ||
1909 | 13.5 | 14.0 | 14.5 |
MORTALITY AT GROUP OF AGES.
The 1611 deaths recorded during the year included 530 children of
five years of age. The deaths of 321 children occurred under one
year, 209 one to five, 57 five to fifteen, 53 between fifteen and twenty-five,
550 between the ages of twenty-five and sixty-five, 421 of
persons upwards of sixty-five.