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Metropolitan Borough of Deptford.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
New Cross Road, S.E. 14.
May, 1928.
To The Worshipful the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Deptford.
Madam Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my seventh Annual Report
on the sanitary circumstances, sanitary administration and vital statistics
of the Borough, together with observations on the matters upon
which it is considered desirable to report.
In Circular 834, the Ministry of Health point out that this
Report should be of a more simple character than the full Survey
Reports which are called for periodically.
The following are some of the principal features of the year:—
1. A faint rise in the general death-rate from 11.3 to 11.5,
yielded nevertheless a rate lower than that for England and Wales as
a whole (12.3) and lower than that for the County of London (11.9).
The death-rates for the 107 County Boroughs and great towns was 12.2.
2. The Infant Mortality rate, 58 per 1,000 born, was again
gratifyingly low; the record of 56 was obtained in the year 1926. It
should be noted, however, that whereas in 1926 there were 119 infant
deaths, the number in 1927 was 111. Why, then, was the 1927 rate
higher than the rate in 1926? It is due to the fact that this rate is
calculated on the number of births in a given year. In 1926 the births
numbered 2,108, whilst in 1927 they numbered 1908—a fall of 200—