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Metropolitan Borough of Deptford.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
New Cross, S.E.
To the Worshipful the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors.
Gentlemen,
I beg to present my Third Annual Report on the health administration
of the Borough for the 53 weeks ending January 3rd, 1914. My
report is divided into four main divisions, viz.:—
1. Area and population, Births and Deaths.
2. Infectious and other diseases.
3. General Sanitary Administration.
4. Factories and Workshops.
My report is prepared in accordance with the provisions of the
following statutes and regulations:—
General Order of the Local Government Board (Dec. 13th, 1910).
Article XIX.
Housing (Inspection of District) Regulations, 1910 (Sept. 2nd)
Article VI.)
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (Section 132).
Vital Statistics.
The vital statistics are now being presented under a new method,
which presents the following advantages: the deaths are now being
allocated to the district in which the dead man resided ; the international
list of causes of death is being used, and all medical officers of health
are to use the same classification; in the case of some diseases
"standardised" rates are to be used, through which by means of
"standardizing factors" supplied by the Registrar-General, corrections
can be applied by medical officers of health for the errors arising out of
differences in the age and sex distributions of the population in different
districts.
Births.
It will be seen in the text that the birth rate for the Borough was 28
per 1,000, which is 1.5 per 1,000 more than that for the previous year,
and 3.2 per 1,000 more than that for the whole of London-
Deaths.
During the year of 53 weeks there were 1,727 deaths. The deathrate
was 15.5 per 1,000, compared with 14.2 per 1,000 for the whole of
London.