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To the Chairman and.Members of the Public Health Committee
of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich.
Gentlemen,
la accordance with your order I beg to hand in my
report on the Public Health of the Eltham District during the
year 1900.
1. There were 134 births, giving a rate of 22'67 per 1,000
inhabitants. This is reckoned on the enumeration of 1896,
and is probably smaller owing to increase of population.
2. The deaths registered in the district amounted to 79, and
19 were reported from " Outlying Institutions," making 98 in
all.
3. Prom these 6 deaths of persons dying in the district but
not belonging to it have to be deducted, leaving the corrected
total at 92. This number gives a death-rate of 15 58 per 1,000
inhabitants.
4. The real death-rate is probably smaller than 15'58 on
account of considerable increase in the population since 1896.
5. Zymotic Disease.—There were two deaths only from
notifiable Zymotic Disease, both from Diphtheria, one at home
and one at Brook Hospital. Death-rate, '33 per thousand.
6. Prom non-notifiable Zymotic Disease 14 deaths were
reported, 4 due to Influenza in the first quarter, and 10 to
Diarrhoea in young children during two consecutive weeks in
September.
7. Porty-seven new cases were notified, and the great
majority of them was removed to Hospital. They were as
under:—
Scarlet Fever 22
Diphtheria 18
Enteric Fever 4
Puerperal Fever 1
Erysipelas 2
Total 47