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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 1908
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1908
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AN ANALYSIS OF DEATH CAUSES.
All death causes are conveniently arranged under various
headings, according to the Registrar-General's classification of
diseases, and the following table, a summary of the larger table,
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.
1908.
Infective Diseases—
Epidemic 1.47
Sporadic 0.01
Venereal 0.04
Septic 0.08
Malarial 0.06
Tuberculosis 1.54
Parasitic Diseases 0.01
Dietic Diseases 0.01
Constitutional Diseases 1.00
Developmental Diseases 2.26
Local Diseases—
Nervous System 1.11
Organs of Special Sense 0.01
Circulatory System 1.08
Respiratory System 1.81
1908.
Local Diseases—continued.
Digestive System 0.94
Lymphatic 0.01
Urinary System. 0.34
Reproductive System 0.02
Parturition 0.02
Bones and Joints 0.02
Integumentary System. 0.00
External Causes—
Accidents 0.51
Homicide 0.00
Suicide 0.81
Ill-defined Causes—
Sudden Death 0.00
Other ill-defined and not
specified causes 0.00