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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Births.
5. The number of births was 3691, and the birth rate 30.0,
compared with 30.0 and 29.9 in the two previous years, and
30.9 the average rate of the ten years 1892—1901.
The rate for the County of London was 28.4.
6. 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. | |||
---|---|---|---|
1901. | 1902. | 1903. | |
Woolwich Parish | 28.5 | 28.8 | 29.1 |
Wards. | |||
Dockyard | 32.3 | 32.2 | 31.5 |
St. Mary's | 19.9 | 21.2 | 21.3 |
River | 28.7 | N. 39.1 | 40.6 |
S. 25.6 | 24.2 | ||
St. George's | 36.0 | 34.4 | 37.5 |
Plumstead Parish | 31.5 | 31.5 | 31.4 |
Wards. | |||
Burrage | 25.7 | 22.7 | 23.9 |
Herbert | 26.1 | 26.4 | 27.0 |
St. Margaret's | 31.6 | 37.2 | 33.7 |
Central | 29.3 | 32.6 | 26.9 |
Glyndon | 32.4 | 28.5 | 31.7 |
St. Nicholas | 36.4 | 29.8 | 31.8 |
Eltham | 22.3 | 23.8 | 24.1 |
Greenwich Borough | 29.0 | 28.1 | 27.3 |
Lewisham Borough | 25.8 | 25.7 | 26.2 |
West Ham | 35.0 | 34.1 | 33.6 |
East Ham | 36.4 | 36.4 | 34.4 |