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 1912
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of marriages solemnized in the Parishes of Greenwich and St.
Nicholas. The Superintendent-Registrar for the Woolwich Union
has also kindly supplied the particulars for the Parishes of Charlton
and Kidbrooke, with the exception, in these latter particulars,
that none of the marriages performed in the Woolwich Registrar's
Office and in Chapels in Charlton and Kidbrooke, of residents in
those Parishes, are included.
The following table shows these particulars, giving the number of marriages in Greenwich and St. Nicholas, etc., for each year since 1893.
Year. | In Churches of England in in Greenwich. | In Churches of England Charlton and Kidbrooke. | In St. Nicholas Parish Church. | Marriages in Registrar's Office of parties resident in Greenwich, or, outside the Registration District and in Chapels and Roman Catholic as Church in St. Nicholas and Greenwich. | Total. | Approximate Population of the districts concerned |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
1910 | 304 | 110 | 53 | 243 | 710 | 112935 |
1911 | 309 | 123 | 34 | 230 | 696 | 95982 |
1912 | 266 | 102 | 59 | 228 | 655 | 95992 |
BIRTHS.
The total number of Births in the Borough during the year
has been 2,367, but of these, 63 occurred in the Greenwich Union
Infirmary, the address of the mother being in 39 instances in Deptford
and one in Walthamstow. Deducting these and adding 66