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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 1913

The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1913

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Table: 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.

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.

1913.1913.
Infective Diseases—Local Diseases—continued.
Epidemic1.59Digestive System0.49
Sporadic0.00Lymphatic0.00
Venereal0.08Urinary System0.86
Septic0. 03Reproductive System0.01
Malarial0.10Parturition0.03
Tuberculosis1.45Bones and Joints0.03
Dietic Diseases0.02Integumentary System0.01
Constitutional Diseases1.63External Causes—
Developmental Diseases2.59Accidents0.49
Local Diseases-Homicide0.01
Nervous System1.17Suicide0.05
Organs of Special Sense0.03Ill-defined Causes—,
Circulatory System1. 72Sudden Death0.00
Respiratory System2.41Other ill-defined and not specified causes0.00

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REMARKS ON VARIOUS DEATH CAUSES.
Infective Diseases.
Epidemic. There were 156 deaths due to this class of diseases,
equalling a Death Rate of 159 per 1,000; the rate last year
was 126, and was 1.54 and 2 58 in 1910 and 1911 respectively.
Zymotic. The purely Zymotic class of epidemic diseases
is credited with causing a total of 140 deaths, equalling a Death
Rate of 144 per 1,000.
Locally, the Zymotic Death Rate varied from 0.00 in Kidbrooke
(0.35 in 1912), 1.06 in Charlton (0.98 in 1912), 1.41 in
East Greenwich (100 in 1912), 155 in West Greenwich (123 in
1912), up to 2.70 in St. Nicholas (3.31 in 1912).