London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1912
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1912
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some degree by the various district nurses of the Ranyard Nursing
Society.
The lowest rates of Infantile Mortality amongst the Metropolitan
Boroughs were 62 per 1,000 births in Hampstead, 68 in
Chelsea, 70 in Lewisham, 72 in Stoke Newington, 73 in Woolwich,
and 76 in Wandsworth; whilst the highest were 105 in Stepney
and Southwark, 107 in Poplar, 111 in Bermondsey, 114 in Finsbury,
and 123 in Shoreditch.
Locally, the variations were from nil per 1,000 births in Kidbrooke, 65 in Charlton, 78 in East Greenwich, 81 in West Greenwich, and 160 in St. Nicholas; the following table compares at a glance these figures for the years since the formation of the Borough:—
| District. | Average for five Years, 1901-1905 inclusive. | Average for five Years, 1906-1910 inclusive. | 1910. | 1911. | 1912. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Greenwich | 129 | 106 | 108 | 124 | 78 |
| West | 126 | 110 | 121 | 156 | 81 |
| St. Nicholas | 179 | 143 | 123 | 137 | 160 |
| Charlton | 121 | 109 | 80 | 100 | 65 |
| Kidbrooke | 39 | 79 | 63 | 42 | — |
| Total | 131 | 111 | 108 | 129 | 84 |
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.