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Croydon 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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The approximate acreage of the Wards is as follows
Areas in Acres Wards
1660 Upper Norwood (sub-division)
Thornton Heath do
980 South Norwood
998 West
1181 North
404 Central
2209 East
1580 South
9012
THE BIRTHS during the year numbered 3,810 Of those born
1,902 were boys and 1,908 were girls The birth rate equalled
22 8 per 1,000 as compared with 24 8 for England and Wales
Of the total births, 180, or 47 per cent, were illegitimate
The births were distributed as follows
| Total | Birth rale per 1,00estimated population | |
|---|---|---|
| Upper Norwood Sub-Division | *139 | 166 |
| Central Ward | 298 | 17.1 |
| South Ward | 376 | 18.0 |
| East | 404 | 20.5 |
| South Norwood Ward | 548 | |
| BOROUGH | 3810 | 23.2 |
| Thornton Heath Sub-Division | 474 | 25.3 |
| West Ward | 824 | 26.4 |
| North ,, | 665 | 28.7 |
| The Workhouse | 82 | |
| *Including 29 births at 89, Central Hill (Servants' Reformatory) | ||
DEATHS —During the year, 1,817 deaths were registered in
the Borough, or 10.9 per 1000 One hundred and nine of the
deaths registered in the Borough were those of strangers dying at
the Workhouse or Infirmary, 21 of strangers dying at the Croydon
General Hospital, 3 at the Cottage Hospital, Purley, 9 at the
Cottage Hospital, Upper Norwood, 1 at "Victoria House," 89,
Central Hill (Servants' Reformatory, while ; deaths at the Borough
Hospital occurred among patients admitted from Penge, and
Streatham
If we deduct these 145 deaths and add 36 deaths at the Mental
Hospital, Warlingham, and 75 deaths of Croydon residents known
to have occurred outside the district during the same period, we
get a nett total of 1783 deaths, which is equal to 107 per 1,000 as