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Public Health and Housing Department,
Royal Hill, Greenwich,
August, 1916.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich.
Gentlemen,
The Medical Officer of Health has instructed me to submit
to you the "Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health"
for the year 1915, in order to comply with the requirements of
the "Sanitary Officers (London) Order, 1891," of the Local
Government Board.
The Birth Rate is 24.38 per 1,000 for Greenwich and 22.6
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 17.5 per 1,000 of the estimated
population (including 130 deaths of persons, i.e. soldiers and
sailors not ordinarily resident in the Borough) being slightly higher
than 16.1 per 1,000 of the Death Rate for the County of London
and 15.6 per 1,000, the figure for the 96 large towns. If Military
deaths were excluded, the recorded Death Rate would be 16.2
per 1,000.
The information contained in the National Register has been
utilized by the Registrar-General in his calculation of local populations.
Estimates of local populations based on the Census returns
were clearly inadmissible owing to alterations in populations due
to conditions caused by the War.
The National Register referred to a date only six weeks
removed from that for which estimates were required, viz., the
middle of the year 1915.
The Registrar-General is of opinion that the estimation of
populations in sex and age groups, and the standardizing factors
dependent upon them will not be possible, and without these data
the correction of recorded Death Rales as regards these particulars
cannot be carried out.