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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Woolwich 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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Table: 21. The following table shows the deaths per 1000 births during the past eight years in each of the three parishes : —

21. The following table shows the deaths per 1000 births during the past eight years in each of the three parishes : —

1896.1897.1898.1899.1900.1901.1902.1903.
Woolwich175160175167171137119132
Plumstead13311615612412912212995
Eltham1761201501981561419574

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Woolwich parish had a lower rate in 1902, but in Plumstead
and Eltham the 1903 rate was the lowest in the eight years.
22. River Ward North and all the Plumstead Wards had a
lower rate than in 1902, the most marked diminution being in
the River Ward North and St. Nicholas.
23. Table VII. shows how Woolwich compares with other
Metropolitan Boroughs as respects infant mortality. Four
Boroughs had a lower rate, viz.:—Hampstead, Lewisham,
Holborn and St. Marylebone.
24. Deaths at various ages.—Table IV. shows the number
of deaths at various groups of ages. The total deaths under
five years of age were 551, giving a death rate (per 1000 living
under five at the census) of 40.8, and per cent. of total deaths—
34.
At ages between five and twenty, the number of deaths was
very small; after the age of five, the actual greatest number
of deaths occurred between 65 and 75.
Thirty-five deaths occurred over 85.
25. Zymotic death rate.—The number of deaths from the
principal zymotic diseases was 119, giving a rate of 0.96 per
1000 living, compared with 1.51 and 1.88 in the two previous
years. The London zymotic death rate was 1.76.