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Woolwich 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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Deaths.
12. Table I, gives the gross and nett deaths and death
rates in 1903, and each of the past 11 years, and shews also
how the nett deaths are arrived at. All death rates have been
corrected for public institutions, and also for accidents in the
street and on the river when these could be allocated to their
proper district. Re correction which should be made for sex
and age distribution, see Annual Report for 1902. Suffice it to
say that the death rates of Woolwich and Eltham parishes
would be distinctly higher if corrected for sex and age distribution,
and this is even more the case with respect to St. Mary's
and St. George's Wards.
13. The Death Rate—13.3—is the lowest that has yet been
recorded, the lowest rate previously reached being 14.6 in 1901,
and the average for the previous ten years, 16.6.
14. Table VII, taken from the "British Medical Journal,"
shews how Woolwich compares with the County and other
Metropolitan Boroughs.

Six Boroughs had a lower rate.

The death rate in West Ham was15.5
,, East Ham „11.4
„ Erith „10.3
,, England & Wales15.4
,, 72 large towns16.3
,, London15.2
„ Woolwich13.3