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Deaths.
1914 Average for past
10 years.
Number of deaths 1,598 1,678
Average death-rate for previous
5 years 14·4 14·6
Rate per 1,000 Deptford 14·6
„ „ England and Wales 13·7
„ „ 97 Large Towns 15·0
„ „ 145 Smaller Towns 13·1
„ „ County of London 14·4
The number of deaths registered within the Metropolitan Borough
of Deptford from all causes during 1914 was 1,145, equal to a deathrate
of 10·5 as compared with 1,283 deaths, and a death-rate of 11·6
during the previous year. Of this number 583 were males and 562
females. The total number of deaths belonging to Deptford is obtained
by deducting the number of deaths of non-parishioners registered in
the Borough, viz.: 163, of which number 146 occurred in the Metropolitan
Asylums Board's South Eastern Hospital, making 982 deaths
actually belonging to Deptford. To this number we must add 616
deaths of parishioners which occurred in public institutions outside the
Borough, making a total of 1,598, of which 844 were males and 754
females, and upon these figures the statistics are based.
The death-rate for the Borough was equal to an annual rate of
14·6 per 1,000 of the population, as compared with 15·5 for 1913,
13·2 for 1912, and 15·8 for 1911, the average for the past five years
being 14·4.