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Greenwich 1908

The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1908

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Analysis of the Vital Statistics of the Metropolitan Boroughs, and the City of London, after Distribution of Deaths occurring in Public Institutions, during the year 1908:

Boroughs.Estimated Population, middle of 1908.Births.Deaths.Deaths from Principal Infectious Diseases.Annual Rate per 1,000 living.Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to 1000 births.
Annual rate per 1,000 Living.Principal Infectious Diseases.Small-pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Typhus.Enteric Fever.Ill-defined Pyrexia.Diarrhoea.Phthisis.
Deaths.
Births.Crude.Correct d
County of London4,795,757122,89867,3536,59925.213.814.51.35...0.310.110.150.20...0.050.000.531.32113
Paddington150,9233,3841,89713322.112.413.20.87...0.230.100.100.07...0.03...0.34l.01103
Kensington182,7523,5652,39016919.212.913.90.92...0.170.050150.04...0.03...0.480.98119
Hammersmith124,0123,2041,75913725.414.014.51.09...0.120.090.100.15...0.04...0.591.26120
Fulham171,5624,7102,15527727.012.412.91.59...0.410.100.180.19...0.06...0.651.14116
Chelsea75,0491,5581,1069020.414.515.01.18...0.160.100.160.22...0.07...0.471.27107
City of Westminster170,5452,9002,19110216.712.614.20.58...0.130.090.090.05...0.03...0.241.23102
St. Marylebone126,8672,6521,83111020.614.215.10.85...0.190.100.110.10...0.5...0.301.16101
Hampstead92,6541,4007993914.98.59.6 J0.40...0.050.070.050.05...0.05...0.130.7869
St. Pancras237,0755,9183,54725524.614.715.41.06...0.190.080.090.29...0.04...0.371.51107
Islington349,0918,7824,68235324.713.213.71.01...0.230.090.160.16...0.05...0.321.24102
Stoke Newington54,0151,0846774519.712.312.90.82...0.180.090.020.11...0.07...0.351.0792
Hackney235,2535,5803,14536523.313.213.71.52...0.310.130.190.18...0.03...0.681.22115
Holborn54,4661,0869065919.616.417.61.07...0.200.130.090.14...0.09...0.422.11113
Finsbury96,0073,0381,81620531.118.619.32.09...0.450.130.160.26...0.12...0.972.15133
City of London19,252292346814.917.719.40.40...0.15...0.100.05.........0.101.7992
Shoreditch115,2273,7442,04224532.017.418.32.09...0.440.250.110.20...0.09...1.002.00139
Bethnal Green131,0664,3412,27532932.617.117.32.48...0.780.300.210.32...0.100.000.771.61132
Stepney310,70610,1245,17680032.116.417.12.53...0.840.170.240.41...0.04...0.831.56130
Poplar171,5165,4922,74639431.515.916.32.26...0.470.210.190.42...0.08...0.891.34123
Southwark210,4426,2373,48837829.216.317.01.76...0.360.110.150.23...0.030.010.881.88131
Bermondsey127,9104,2302,43829932.518.819.22.30...0.820.190.180.17...0.09...0.841.89144
Lambeth321,3448,0354,33638724.613.313.71.18...0.310.130.140.15...0.02...0.431.45104
Battersea183,8734,6632,27822224.912.213.11.19...0.260.130.120.21...0.03...0.441.19106
Wandsworth289,5067,4033,40327525.211.612.20.93...0.150.070.130.21...0.02...0.351.9697
Camberwell280,0226,8853,60330624.212.713.11.06...0.190.080.140.19...0.02...0.440.12104
Deptford117,5393,1531,64315726.413.814.51.32...0.280.060.080.20...0.07...0.631.16122
GREENWICH109,1102,5901.37712923.412.412.91.16...0.140.050.60.28...0.08...0.441.14120
Lewisham156,6273,6611,74819723.011.011.41.25...0.290.070.270.9...0.03...0.401.8586
Woolwich131,3463,1761,51612323.811.412.10.92...0.070.070.160.24...0.02...0.360.2094

* The Corrected Death Rates represent the Crude Death Rates multiplied by the respective factors.
for correction for differences of sex and age constitution of population.