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The sewage of Penge goes through the Metropolitan
Borough of Lewisham, into the London County Council system
of sewers, and a part of the surface water into a local
stream.
The amount of Poor Law Relief given daring the year
amounted to £2433 3s. lid., of which £946 18s. lOd. was to
able-bodied unemployed and their families.
DEATH RATE.
The number of deaths registered in the Urban District
of Penge during the year was 222, equal to a death rate of 8.3
per 1000. Twenty-five of these deaths were transferable to
other districts, but 114 occurring in public institutions, etc.,
outside the District were transferred to Penge.
The corrected number of deaths was therefore 311,
equal to a rate of 11.7 per 1000, as compared with 352 or 13.9
per 1000 for 1920.
Of the total 311 deaths during the year, 76 or 24 per
cent, were 75 years of age and upwards, and 140 or 45 per
cent, were over 65.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The number of deaths under one year of age, among
the residents of the District was 36, corresponding to a rate
of 63.8 per 1000 births. There were six still-born infants.
Of the 36 deaths five had been attending at the Child
Welfare Centre.