London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Greenwich 1952

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

13
DEATH RATES
Infants under 1 year of age
All infants per 1,000 live births 14.62
Legitimate Infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 15.37
Illegitimate Infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births Nil
Others
Puerperal Causes (per thousand total births) 2.26
Tuberculosis (all forms) per 1,000 population 0.35
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary per 1,000 population 0.32
Cancer per 1,000 population 1.77
Common Infectious Diseases per 1,000 population Nil
Influenza per 1,000 population 0.01
MARRIAGES.
Mr. F. H. Searle, the Superintendent Registrar of the Greenwich
Registration District, has kindly furnished me with particulars
relating to the number of marriages solemnised or registered in the
Borough of Greenwich during 1952. The total of 720 gives a
marriage rate of 15.8.

Table: The following table shows these particulars giving the number of marriages in the Borough for each year since 1938:—

The following table shows these particulars giving the number of marriages in the Borough for each year since 1938:—

YearChurches of EnglandChapels and Roman Catholic ChurchesSuperintendent-Registrar's OfficeTotalApproximate Population
GreenwichCharlton and KidbrookeSt. Nicholas
19383091853110126889495,770
1939395218311283971.16994,790
1940451243331263451,19874,280
19412771747†9124179057,070
194225719237919872960,530
194320916627317162162,870
1944211136—7417159261,800
194522821128723376163,800
194625819618623577676,840
1947192160139331877682,230
1948202152810434581184,410
1949184129109027268587,680
1950206‡12167424565289,570
195121013336026467089,390
1952191144410227972090,880

Text

Copy text to clipboard

†Parish Church destroyed by enemy action.
‡St. Peter's, Creek Koad
Holy Trinity, Blackheath Hill
Closed.