London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Woolwich 1914

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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West Plumstead and Eltham had the lowest birth.rate of the four registration districts; the rate for Eltham was the lowest recorded.

1891.1895.1896.1900.1901.1905.1906.1910.1911.1912.1913.1914.
WoolwichBorough32.530.229.225.323.222.32.2.522.0
Woolwich Parish31.130129.027.927124.826.625 2
Plumstead—
West33.331 030.124.7( 20 621.919.721.0
East23.421.323.722.4
Eltham Parish22.820.624.021.618.519.016.516 3

8. Illegitimate Births. 59 of the births registered were
illegitimate, giving a rate of 21 per 1,000 births, compared
with 24, 19, 13, 17, and 23, in the five p.reoeding years. The
illegitimate birth.rate in England and Wales was 43 in 1913.
MARRIAGES.
9. There were 1,145 marriages. The marriage.rate was
17*7, compared with 16'4, 16'0, and 16 4, in the three
preceding years. The marriage.rate in England and Wales
was 15'9.
DEATHS.
10. Table I. gives the gross and net deaths and death.
rates in 1914, and each of the past ten years, and shows how
the net deaths are arrived at.
The net death.rates (which are the only ones referred to
unless otherwise specified) are obtained by distribution of
deaths in public institutions, deaths upon which inquests were
held, and certain other deaths, to their proper locality, according
as they occur outside or inside the Borough. But