Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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4. Births.—The birth rate 29.9 was lower than in 1901
(303), but higher than in the previous three years; it was
below the average of the ten preceding years. (See Table 1).
The rate for the County of London was 28.5.
5. The following table shows the birth rate of the three parishes and eleven wards of the Borough, and how these compare with the neighbouring Boroughs:—
Birth rate. | ||
---|---|---|
Woolwich Paeish | 28.8 | |
Wards. | ||
Dockyard | 32.2 | |
St. Mary's | 21.2 | |
River | 28.2 | N. 39.1 |
S. 25.6 | ||
St. George's | 34.4 | |
Plumstead Parish | 31.5 | |
Wards. | ||
Burrage | 22.7 | |
Herbert | 26.4 | |
St. Margaret's | 37.2 | |
Central | 32.6 | |
Glyndon | 28.5 | |
St. Nicholas | 29.8 | |
Eltham | 23.8 | |
Greenwich | 28.1 | |
Lewisham | 25.7 | |
West Ham | 34.1 | |
East Ham | 36.4 | |
Erith | 37.27 | |
London | 28.5 | |
England & Wales | 28.6 | |
Woolwich Borough | 29.9 |