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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 1918

The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1918

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Table: The following table'shows these particulars, giving the number of marriages in Greenwich and St. Nicholas, etc., for each year since 1910.

The following table'shows these particulars, giving the number of marriages in Greenwich and St. Nicholas, etc., for each year since 1910.

Year.In Churches of England in Greenwich.In Churches of England in Charlton and Kidbrooke.St. Nicholas Parish Church.Marriages in Superintendent-Registrar's Office of parties resident in Greenwich, or outside the Registration District, and in Chapels and Roman Catholic Church in St. Nicholas and Greenwich.Total.Approximate Population of the districts concerned.
191030411053243710112935
19113091233423069695982
19122661025922865595992
19132951205125972596015
19142791357224372996037
191547218895406116196385
19163811457432492494452
191734312867653119190440
19183531655524481789939

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BIRTHS.
The total number of Births registered in the Borough during
the year has been 1,753, but of these, 92 occurred in the Greenwich
Union Infirmary, the address of the mother being in 27
instances in Deptford, 19 in Lewisham, 17 in Woolwich and one
in Croydon. Deducting these and adding seven which were transferred
from Lambeth, Stepney, St. Pancras and Deptford, it will
lie seen that the number of strictly Greenwich births for 1918 is
1.696, of which 872 were males and 824 females.
This corrected figure gives a Birth Kate of 16.88 per 1,000 of
the population, being 7.65 below the average for the last seventeen
years, 1901 to 1917, the period since the formation of the Metropolitan
Borough.
Amongst the total number of births registered in the Borough
there were 114 in which the name of the father was not registered
and therefore not given in the return; accordingly, these births
may be presumed ,to be of an illegitimate character. 82 of such
births were registered in the East Greenwich District, which
includes the Infirmary of the Greenwich Union.
In 19 cases the mother was ordinarily a resident in the
Borough of Deptford, 13 in Lewisham, 14 in Woolwich and one
in Croydon, and accordingly this number of births have been
transferred to those Boroughs.
The remaining 67 were similarly allocated to the district
in this Borough in which the mother ordinarily resided, making
24 of such births belonging to East Greenwich, 24 to West Greenwich,
13 to St. Nicholas, and 6 to Charlton.