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Public Health and Housing Department,
Royal Hill,-Greenwich,
May, 1912.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit herewith, in accordance with
the requirements of the Local Government Board, the Annual
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1911.
The mortality statistics for the year are not of such a
satisfactory character as usual. The Birth Rate of 24.89 per
1,000 is exactly the average for the whole of the County of
London. The recorded Death Rate of 14.86 per 1,000 of the
estimated population, being only just under 15.0 per 1,000,
the Death Rate for the County of London, and 15-5 per
1,000, the figure for the 77 large towns.
The Death Rate for Greenwich corrected according to
difference of age and sex constitution in the population, as
revealed by the recent Census enumeration, equals 15.0 per
1,000.
Comparing Greenwich with the other Metropolitan
Boroughs according to their corrected Death Rate, which is
the fairest method of comparison, shows that Greenwich has
the lowest Death Rate but 9 amongst the 29 Metropolitan
Boroughs. The 9 Boroughs having a better Death Rate than
Greenwich being Hampstead, Lewisham, Wandsworth, Stoke
Newington, Woolwich, City of Westminster, Paddington,
Kensington, Camberwell.
Comparing our relative position with that of last year
and the few preceding years, it will be seen that we have