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Woolwich 1902

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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No correction has been made for the age distribution of the
population, although this materially affects the death rates.
Thus the large number of female servants in Eltham, and of
soldiers in St. George's and St. Mary's Wards, at an age when
the death rate is very low, make the death rate in these wards,
and to some extent in the Borough, appear lower than it
really is.
Mr. Shirley Murphy has calculated the factor for correction
for differences in the age and sex constitution of the population
to be 1.05107 for London County, and 1.07024 for the Borough.
The application of such factors to the death rate of each
Borough had the effect in 1901 of bringing Woolwich down
from the sixth to the seventh place as regards lowness of death
rate.
9. The death rate 14.7 is, with the exception of 1901 (14.6),
the lowest that has occurred in the past ten years.

10. Table VII. shows how Woolwich compares with the County and other Metropolitan Boroughs.

The death rate in West Ham was17.1
„ „ Bast Ham „11.9
„ „ Erith „12.88
,, „ England and Wales16.3
„ „ London ,,17.2

11. The following table gives the death rate in each parish and each ward of the Borough:—

Woolwich Paeish17.1
Dockyard16.4
St. Mary's14.0
River—North18.7
River—South18.7
St. George's16.4