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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Greenwich 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]
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DEATHS.
The net number of deaths registered during 1936 was 1,086 of
which 567 were males and 519 females. This gives a crude Death
Rate for the Borough of 11.36, which figure is slightly increased
to 11.58 when the comparability factor furnished by the Registrar
General for adjusting Local Deaths is taken into account.
The Comparability Factor for Greenwich is the same as last
year, viz., 1.02 and may be regarded as the population handicap
to be applied, which, when multiplied by the crude Death Rate
for the year, modifies the latter so as to make it comparable with
the Country as a whole or any other similarly adjusted area. The
adjusted Death Rate is in effect a "corrected" Death Rate.
The Death Rates for the County of London and for England
and Wales are 12.5 and 12.1 respectively.
The following table showing causes of death at all ages has been
supplied by the Registrar-General, and is included in accordance
with the request contained in the Ministry of Health's Circular
No. 1561.