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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 1923

The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1923

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12
MARRIAGES.
The Superintendent-Registrar of the Greenwich Registration
District has kindly furnished me with the particulars relating to
the number of marriages solemnised in the Parishes of Greenwich
and St. Nicholas. The Superintendent-Registrar for the
Woolwich Registration District has also kindly supplied the particulars
for the parishes of Charlton and Kidbrooke, with the
exception, in these latter particulars, that the marriages performed
in the Woolwich Superintendent-Registrar's Office and in Chapels
in Charlton and Kidbrooke, of residents in those Parishes, are not
included.

Table: The following table shows these particulars, giving the number of marriages in Greenwich and St. Nicholas, etc., for each year since 1912:—

The following table shows these particulars, giving the number of marriages in Greenwich and St. Nicholas, etc., for each year since 1912:—

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 & Greenwich.Total.Approximate Population of the districts concerned.
19122661025922865595992
19132951205125972596015
19142791357224372996037
191547218895406116196385
19163811457432492494452
191734312867653119190440
19183531655524481789939
1919419197763261018102591
1920384105643122875104453
192134412457249774100493
192236411245275796101930
192333613251222741102460

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BIRTHS.
The total number of births registered in the Borough during
the year was 2,276. Of this number 167 occurred in Greenwich
and Deptford Hospital and 397 at various Nursing Homes within
the Borough. Of this total of 564 Institution births, 267 only
belonged to Greenwich, the remainder being transferred to the
appropriate localities.
One hundred and nineteen births belonging to the Borough
took place in Institutions outside the Borough area, thus the actual
figure for Greenwich becomes 2,098—Males, 1,078; Females, 1,020.
This figure gives a Birth Rate of 20-54 per 1,000 of the population,
which is 1-65 below the average for the last ten years.