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9
Public Health and Housing Department,
Royal Hill, Greenwich.
June, 1920.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit herewith the Annual Report of
the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1919.
The Birth Kate is 18.87 per 1,000 for Greenwich and 18.30
for the whole of the County of London.
The Mortality Statistics for the year are, I am pleased to say,
of a satisfactory character, the recorded Death Rate of 13.15
per 1,000 of the estimated population being considerably less than
the corresponding figure for last year, i.e., 19.16 per 1,000, and
just below the figure of 13.4 per 1,000, which is the Death Rate
for the County of London, and 13.8 per 1,000, the figure for the
ninety-six large towns, although once again I must state that, in
my opinion, these Death Rates are quite fallacious, being based
on estimates of population which are, in my opinion, considerably
too low.
The Infantile Mortality Rate for the Borough, measured by
the number of deaths under one year to 1,000 births registered, is
95, a decrease from 119, the figure for last year; the figure for
all London is 89, compared with 107 in 1918, and the Borough
average during the last five years, 1914-18 inclusive, is 101.
The Zymotic Death Rate of .84 is .86 per 1,000 below the
corresponding figure for last year.