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Deaths.
1912.
Average for past
10 years.
Number of deaths
1,442
1,718
Average death-rate for previous
5 years
14·2
14·9
Rate per 1,000 Deptford
13·2
,, ,, England and Wales
13·3
„ ,, 95 Large Towns
13·8
„ ,, 136 Smaller Towns
13·2
,, „ County of London
13·6
The number of deaths registered within the Metropolitan
Borough of Deptford from all causes during 1912 was 1,045,
equal to a death-rate of 9'6 as compared with 1,304 deaths, and
a death-rate of 11.9 during the previous year. Of this number
490 were males and 555 females. The total number of deaths
belonging to Deptford is obtained by deducting the number of
deaths of non-parishioners registered in the Borough, viz.:
182, of which number 175 occurred in the Metropolitan Asylums
Board's South Eastern Hospital, making 863 deaths actually
belonging to Deptford. To this number we must add 579
deaths of parishioners which occurred in public institutions
outside the Borough, making a total of 1442 of which 741 were
males and 701 females, and upon these figures the statistics
are based.
The death-rate for the Borough was equal to an annual
rate of 13·2 per 1,000 of the population, as compared with 15·8
for 1911, 13·9 for 1910 and 13·5 for 1909, the average for the·
past five years being 14·2.
The 579 deaths outside the borough were distributed as
follows:—