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Included in the above total number of deaths in the Borough
of Greenwich, and all of them specially allocated to the districts
of East and West Greenwich, are a total of 48 deaths of sailors and
others occurring in the "Dreadnought" Hospital. Such persons
had no known fixed residence in England, and, unfortunately,
died in the "Dreadnought" Hospital. There were also two deaths
of soldiers in the Herbert Hospital, whose addresses were given
as South Africa and China respectively.
From a consideration of the above total it will be seen that
there has been a great increase in the number of deaths in West
Greenwich District, which now includes the Seamen's " Dreadnought
" Hospital, which Institution, up till this year, was included
in the area of the East Greenwich District. Accordingly, if we
deduct 2.07, the death rate in West Greenwich occasioned by the
addition of the 48 deaths of sailors in the Seamen's Hospital,that
will give the rate for West Greenwich as 16.74,which is comparable
with the figures set out for the previous five years, showing that
there has been an increase in the number of deaths of actual West
Greenwich residents, but not so great as appears on the face of it,
and if we add 1.02 to the figure for East Greenwich, as being the
rate occasioned by these 48 deaths had they been, as previously,
allocated to East Greenwich District, it would have given that
District a rate of 13.48, which shows that that District also has
really had an increase in its death rate during the year under
consideration.