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Town Hall,
Woolwich,
March 25th, iSgg-
To
The Chairman and Members of the Woolwich Local Board of LLealth.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my report upon the Sanitary
condition of Woolwich during the year 1898.
Mortality
Statistics.
There have been 870 deaths during the year; of this
number 382 occurred in the Dockyard Registration SubDistrict,
and 488 in the Arsenal Registration Sub-District.
The gross death-rate for the year, estimated upon a population of
41,478 is 20.9 per thousand.
Of these deaths, 221 took place in various medical institutions
(Table VII.) outside the district; in the appended statistical table they
have, however, been allotted to their proper registration sub-districts,
and calculated as if taking place within the sanitary area of Woolwich.
Thirty-five deaths, occurring within the district, were of persons not
rightly belonging to Woolwich ; if these be deducted from the total
deaths, the correct number of deaths occurring in Woolwich during
the twelve months ending the 31st December, 1898, will be obtained,
viz., 835.