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From the foregoing table you will perceive that, in the District of
Greenwich East, according to the Census of 1851, the population
amounted to 16,228, and that 666 deaths were registered from that
locality, including those from Greenwich Hospital and the Union
Workhouse. This mortality will show a death rate of a fraction
over 41 per 1,000.
That, in Greenwich West, out of a population of 18,800, there
was a registration of 480 deaths, including those from the
Dreadnought Hospital Ship, which will make a death rate of a
little more than 25 per 1,000.
That, in the Parish of Saint Paul, Deptford, where the
population amounts to 24,899, there was a mortality of 608
persons, giving a death rate of 24 per 1,000; and that, in the
Parish of St. Nicholas, Deptford, out of a population of 7,071, the
deaths were 143, which is at the rate of a fraction over 22
per 1,000.
Thus showing that, in a total population of 66,998 persons in
the whole District, the deaths were 1,897; making a total death
rate of a trifle more than 28 per 1,000.
From these statements at first sight it will appear that a heavy
amount of mortality has occurred in this as compared with other
Metropolitan Districts; and undoubtedly such would be the case if
these numbers and death rates conveyed a true representation of the
mortality actually occurring in the District.
It would be a great injustice towards this District, and
towards the Parish of Greenwich in particular, if the above statements
were allowed to go before the public without an explanation
of the reasons why this large amount of mortality has fallen to the
lot of this neighbourhood.
In the foregoing table you will observe that, out of 666 deaths
registered in Greenwich East, 239 occurred in Greenwich
Hospital. The inmates of that valuable establishment are mostly
aged persons, worn out in the service of their country, and, to use
the expression, brought from all parts of the kingdom to that
institution to close their days. A few of these Pensioners died
under the age of 60 years; a very large proportion attained the