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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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The following table which is compiled by the Registrar-General shows at a glance the relative position occupied by Greenwich with other Boroughs in London:—

Borough.Rate per 1000 populationBorough.Rate per 1000 Population.
Woolwich10.3Battersea11.8
Greenwich10.7Stoke Newingtom11.8
Lewisham10.8St. Pancras11.9
F ulham11.0Islington12.0
Bethnal Green11.1Holborn12.0
Camberwell11. 1Lambeth12.2
Deptford11.1Shoreditch12.2
Wandsworth11.2Hammersmith12.5
Hackney11.3Bermondsey12.6
Stepney11.4Paddington12.8
Poplar11.5Finsbury12.8
City of London11.5Southwark12.9
St. Marylebone11.5Kensington13.1
Hampstead11.6Chelsea13.5
City of Westminster11.7

Locally the Death Rate varied from 9.16 in Kidbrooke,
10.59 in East Greenwich, 10.66 in Charlton, 11.11 in St.
Nicholas, Deptford, up to 11.48 in West Greenwich.
Of the total number of deaths, 5 under five years of age
were of illegitimate birth, 3 of whom were under one year of
age.

The following table shows the variation in, and average of the Death Rates in each of the five Districts of the Borough in the five years 1922 to 1926, compared with the figures for 1927.

District.19221923192419251926Averagefor 5 years.1927
East Greenwich11· 2610·4311·1410·8710·8210·9010·59
West Greenwich15·2712·9711·8412·4512·2412·9511·48
St. Nicholas, Deptford17·6112·5811·7712·6314·2213·7611·11
Charlton11·688·7412·4111·368·8910·6110·66
Kidbrooke12·3810·476·616·095·458·209·16
Borough12· 9210· 9511·4711·3610·8911·5110·83