Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1909
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The following table shews these particulars, giving the number of Marriages in Greenwich and St. Nicholas, &c., for each year since 1893.
Year. | In Churches of England in Greenwich. | In Churches of England in Charlton ant Kidbrooke. | In St. Nicholas Parish Church. | Marriage in Registrar s Office of parties resident in Greenwich, or, outside the Registration District and in Chapels and Roman Catholic Church in St. Nicholas and Greenwich. | Total. | Approximate Population of the districts concerned. |
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1893 | 295 | — | 49 | 94 | 438 | 66489 |
1894 | 299 | — | 44 | .. 100 | 443 | 67507 |
1895 | 246 | — | 52 | .. 102 | 400 | 68525 |
1896 | 282 | — | 61 | 96 | 439 | 69543 |
1897 | 287 | — | 40 | 119 | 446 | 70561 |
1898 | 309 | — | 45 | 119 | 473 | 71569 |
1899 | 343 | — | 46 | 158 | 547 | 72597 |
1900 | 359 | — | 46 | 140 | 545 | 73615 |
1901 | 354 | — | 52 | 147 | 553 | 74636 |
1902 | — | — | — | — | 667 | 75969 |
1903 | — | — | — | — | 675 | 77395 |
1904 | 324 | 129 | 48 | 174 | 675 | 101651 |
1905 | 303 | 130 | 67 | 205 | 705 | 103493 |
1906 | 314 | 113 | 69 | 217 | 713 | 105350 |
1907 | 328 | 115 | 45 | 252 | 740 | 107222 |
1908 | 287 | 110 | 52 | 224 | 673 | 109110 |
1909 | 246 | 84 | 54 | 224 | 608 | 111014 |
BIRTHS.
The total number of births in the Borough during the year
has been 2,492, but of these 45 occurred in Greenwich Union
Infirmary, the address of the mother being in 45 cases in Deptford
; deducting these and adding 8 which were transferred from
Stepney, Lambeth and St. Marylebone, it will be seen that the
number of strictly Greenwich births for 1909 is 2,455, of which
1,262 were males and 1,193 females.
This corrected figure gives a birth rate of 22.19 per 1,000 of
the population, being the lowest on record, and 3.84 below the
average for the last eight years, 1901 to 1908, the period since
the formation of the Metropolitan Borough.