Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1919
This page requires JavaScript
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. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1910 | 304 | 110 | 53 | 243 | 710 | 112935 |
1911 | 309 | 123 | 34 | 230 | 696 | 95982 |
1912 | 266 | 102 | 59 | 228 | 655 | 95992 |
1913 | 295 | 120 | 51 | 259 | 725 | 96015 |
1914 | 279 | 135 | 72 | 243 | 729 | 96037 |
1915 | 472 | 188 | 95 | 406 | 1161 | 96385 |
1916 | 381 | 145 | 74 | 324 | 924 | 94452 |
1917 | 343 | 128 | 67 | 653 | 1191 | 90440 |
1918 | 353 | 165 | 55 | 244 | 817 | 89939 |
1919 | 419 | 197 | 76 | 326 | 1018 | 102591 |
births.
The total number of Births registered in the Borough during
the year has been 1,968, but of these, 98 occurred in the Greenwich
Union Infirmary, the address of the mother being in 20
instances in Deptford, 35 in Lewisham, 8 in Woolwich and one
in Camberwell. Deducting these and adding 38 which were transferred
from Lambeth, Stepney, St. Pancras, Deptford, Southwark,
Newport, Westminster, Woolwich, Holborn and West Ham, it will
be seen that the number of strictly Greenwich births for 1919 is
1,942, of which 992 were males and 950 females.
This corrected figure gives a Birth Rate of 18.62 per 1,000 of
the population, being 5.48 below the average for the last eighteen
years, 1901 to 1918, the period since the formation of the Metropolitan
Borough.
Amongst the total number of births registered in the Borough
there were 111 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. Sixty-nine of
such births were registered in the East Greenwich District, which
includes the Infirmary of the Greenwich Union.
In 16 cases the mother was ordinarily, a resident in the
Borough of Deptford, 35 in Lewisham and two in Woolwich, and
accordingly this number of births have been transferred to those
Boroughs. The home address of the other 16 were 4 in East Greenwich
and 12 in West Greenwich.
The remaining 42 were allocated to the district in this Borough
in which the mother resided, making 17 of such births belonging