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Greenwich 1927
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1927
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VITAL AND MORTAL STATISTICS, 1927.
POPULATION.
The population of the Borough estimated to the middle of the
year 1927 is 103,250 for Death Rate and 103,700 for Birth
Rate. These figures have been revised and are lower than those
which were in operation last year. This has been found
necessary in consequence of certain information acquired by the
Registrar-General regarding migration.
The population according to the Registrar-General's estimate
is 101,920 for Death Rate and 102,820 for Birth Rate,
which figures in my opinion are too low.
The following is the distribution of the population throughout the Borough and upon which the statistics in this Report are based:—
| Census 1921 (Adjusted) | Estimated Population at middle of year 1927. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| For Death Rate. | For Birth Rate. | ||
| East Greenwich | 44,647 | 44,604 | 44,798 |
| West Greenwich | 26,931 | 26,996 | 27,114 |
| St. Nicholas, Deptford | 7,646 | 7,764 | 7,798 |
| Charlton | 18,959 | 20,603 | 20,693 |
| Kidbrooke | 3,217 | 3,283 | 3,297 |
| Total | 101,400 | 103,250 | 103,700 |
| Total | M. | F. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Births | Legitimate | 1,623 | 806 | 817 | *Birth Rate | 16·2 | ||||
| Illegitimate | 63 | 27 | 36 | |||||||
| Deaths | 1,115 | 576 | 539 | * Death Rate | 10·7 | |||||
| *Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth | From Sepsis | 2 | ||||||||
| „ other causes | 2 | |||||||||
| * Deaths of Infants under one year of age per 1,000 births:— | ||||||||||
| Legitimate, | 53; | Illegitimate, | 47. | Total Rate = | 53. | |||||
| Deaths from Measles (all ages) | — | |||||||||
| ,, „ Whooping Cough (all ages) | 16 | |||||||||
| ,, „ Diarrhœa (under 2 years of age) | 8 | |||||||||
* These figures, which are supplied by the Registrar-General, differ slightly
from those shown in other parts of the Report.