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Plumstead 1896

Third annual report 1896-7

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West and East Plumstead compared.
13. West Plumstead compared very favourably with East
as regards the general death rate, and the infantile, zymotic
and phthisis death rates.

Table: The age distribution of the population in West Plumstead is probably slightly more favourable to a low death rate, owing to the larger number of young female servants it contains; but this is not nearly enough to account for all the difference in the rates, and does not at all affect the infantile and phthisis death rates.

The age distribution of the population in West Plumstead is probably slightly more favourable to a low death rate, owing to the larger number of young female servants it contains; but this is not nearly enough to account for all the difference in the rates, and does not at all affect the infantile and phthisis death rates.

West Plumstead.East Plumstead.
Population, Census 18961671442538
Population estimated to middle of year1675742861
No. of persons to a house5.76 33
Males813521789
Females857920748
Birth rate29.0341
Death rate14616.0
Deaths under 1 year—per 1000 births98145
Zymotic death rate2.43 9
Phthisis death rate1.21.4

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Plumstead compared with the other Sanitary Areas
of the Metropolis.
14. Seven districts had a lower death rate, viz.:—Lee,
Lewisham, Wandsworth, Stoke Newington, Hampstead,
Paddington, and St. George's, Hanover Square. If the rates
were corrected for age distribution, Plumstead would come
above Paddington, and would be approximately equal to
Lewisham and Wandsworth. Stoke Newington and Hampstead
alone had a lower infantile death rate.
The Zymotic death rate, as usual in Plumstead, is high,
being this year higher than the London average.