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11
Public Health and Housing Department,
Royal Hill, Greenwich,
March. 1914.
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 1913.
The Birth Rate is 26.09 per 1,000 for Greenw ich and 24.5
for the whole of the County of London. The mortality statistics
for the year are unfortunately not quite of so satisfactory a character
as we have been in the habit of recording during recent years,
the recorded Death Rate of 14.31 per 1,000 of the estimated
population being slightly higher than 14.2 per 1,000, the Death
Rate for the County of London, but below 14 7 per 1,000, the
figure for the 96 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 14.0 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 13 amongst the 29 Metropolitan Boroughs, the 13 Boroughs
having a better Death Rate than Greenwich being Hampstead,
Lew isham, Wandsworth, Stoke Newington, Woolw ich, Paddington,
Camberwell, Hackney, Kensington, Hammersmith, Fulham,
Chelsea, City of Westminster.
Comparing our relative position with that of last year it will
be seen that we occupy the thirteenth place among the other
Metropolitan Boroughs in regard to our corrected Death Rate,
whereas we were tenth in the List with a Death Rate of 12.9
per 1,000 in 1912.
Full particulars of all the Boroughs in this respect are to be
found in the table on pages 38 and 39.