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Greenwich 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]
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POPULATION
The Registrar General has estimated the population for
Greenwich at mid-year 1938 as 95,770, as compared with 95,990
for the previous year, and it is upon these figures the statistics in
this report have been based.
| Estimated population at Mid-Year, 1938 | |
|---|---|
| East Greenwich | 39,010 |
| West Greenwich | 21,310 |
| St. Nicholas, Deptford | 5,880 |
| Charlton and Kidbrooke | 29,570 |
| 95,770 |
♦EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS OF THE YEAR.
| Total | M. | F. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births | Legitimate | 1,253 | 635 | 618 Birth Rate 13.64 | |||
| Illegitimate | 50 | 27 | 23 | ||||
| Still Births | Legitimate | 38 | 24 | 14 Rate per 1,000 | |||
| Illegitimate | 2 | — | 2 total Births 29.7 | ||||
| Deaths | 1,041 | 551 | 490 | Death Rate (Crude) 10.90 (Adjusted) 11.11 | |||
| Deaths from Puerperal Causes :— | Rate per 1,000 total Births | ||||||
| Puerperal Sepsis | — | — | |||||
| Other Puerperal Causes | 2 | 1.5 | |||||
| Total | 2 | 1.5 | |||||
| Death Rate of Infants under one year of age :— | |||||||
| All Infants per 1,000 live births | 42 | ||||||
| Legitimate Infants per 1,000 legitimate live births | 41 | ||||||
| Illegitimate Infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births | 60 | ||||||
| Deaths from Cancer (all ages) | 153 | ||||||
| ” ” | Measles (all ages) | 4 | |||||
| ” ” | Whooping Cough (all ages) | 2 | |||||
| ” ” | Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) | 3 | |||||
| * These figures, which are supplied by the Registrar-General, may differ slightly from those shown in other parts of the Report. | |||||||