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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 1916

The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1916

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Table: AN ANALYSIS of DEATH CAUSES. All death causes are canveniently arranged under various headings, according to the Registrar-General's classification of diseases, and the following table, a summary of the larger table in the Appendix, shows the Death Rates for residents, and in fact all persons belonging to the Borough (although some of them may have died in Institutions in other Boroughs, or even outside the County of London altogether), per 1,000 of the population living in the Borough.

AN ANALYSIS of DEATH CAUSES. All death causes are canveniently arranged under various headings, according to the Registrar-General's classification of diseases, and the following table, a summary of the larger table in the Appendix, shows the Death Rates for residents, and in fact all persons belonging to the Borough (although some of them may have died in Institutions in other Boroughs, or even outside the County of London altogether), per 1,000 of the population living in the Borough.

19161916
Infective Diseases-Local Diseases -contd.
Epidemic1.71Lymphatic.01
Sporadic.00Urinary System.57
Venereal.03Reproductive System.06
Septic.18Parturition.04
Malarial.05Bones and Joints..01
Tuberculosis1.8Integumentary System.03
Dietetic Diseases.05External Causes-
Constitutional Diseases1.37Accidents.60
Developmental Diseases2.01Homicide.00
Local Diseases-Suicide.06
Nervous System1.31Ill-defined Causes-
Organs of special senee.01Sudden Death.00
Ciroulatory System2.01
Respiratory System2.79Other ill-defined and not specified causes.02
Drgestive System.71

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REMARKS ON VARIOUS DEATH CAUSES.
Infective Diseases.
Epidemic. There were 161 deaths due to this class of diseases,
equalling a Death Rate of 1.71 per 1,000; the rate last year was
2.30 and was 1.26, 1.59 and 1.53 in 1912, 1913 and 1914 respectively.
Zymotic. The purely Zymotic class of epidemic diseases is credited
with causing a total of 148 deaths, equalling a Death Rate of
1.57 per 1,000.
Locally the Zymotic Death Rate varied from .35 in Kidbrooke
(2.10 in 1915), .97 in Charlton (1.78 in 1915), 2.18 in West
Greenwich (1.96 in 1915), 1.12 in East Greenwich (1.40 in 1915),
up to 4.34 in St. Nicholas (3.84 in 1915).
Small-Pox. There were no deaths from this disease in 1916, this
being the fourteenth year since a death occurred from this cause
in the Borough.
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