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Town Hall,
Woolwich,
February 2lst, 1900.
To
The Chairman and. Members of the Woolwich Local Board of Health.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my report upon the Sanitary
condition of Woolwich during the year 1899.
Mortality Statistics.
There have been 902 deaths during the year; of this
number 384 occurred in the Dockyard Registration SubDistrict,
and 518 in the Arsenal Registration Sub-District.
The gross death-rate for the year, estimated upon a population of
41,542 is 21 7 per thousand.
Of these deaths, 240 took place in various medical institutions
(Table VII.) outside the district; in the appended statistical table they
have, however, been allotted to their proper registration sub-districts,
and calculated as if taking place within the sanitary area of Woolwich.
Thirty-one deaths, occurring within the district, were of persons not
rightly belonging to Woolwich; if these be deducted from the total
deaths, the correct number of deaths occurring in Woolwich during the
twelve months ending the 31st December, 1899, will be obtained,
viz., 871.
Death Rate.
The net death-rate is, therefore, 21.0 per thousand.