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In Plumstead, and 102 in Eltham. At the 1911 Census, there were
1,296, viz., 450 in Woolwich, 387 in West Plumstead, 250 in East
Plumstead, and 209 in Eltham.
In January, 1916, the Rate Collectors found 57 houses unoccupied.
viz., 7 in Woolwich, 13 in West Plumstead, 5 in East
Plumstead, and 32 in Eltham. There are now practically no houses
fit for occupation to let.
BIRTHS.
5. The number of births was 2,698, viz., 657 in Woolwich
parish, 752 in West Plumstead, 736 in East Plumstead, and 553 in
Eltham (corrected for children bom in the Infirmary, and the Wood
Street Home for Mothers and Babies, whose parents reside outside
the Borough, and births in outlying institutions added on). The
birth-rate (calculated on the total population) 17.1 oompares with
21.7 in 1916, and with 23.7 the average for the ten years 1906-15.
The rate for the County of London was 17.5.
Notification of Births. 2,550 live births were notified
under the Notification of Births Act (1,272 males, 1,273 females,
5 not stated). This is at the rate of 95 per cent of the registered
births, compared with 94, 92, 89, 97 and 86 per cent in the
five preceding years. 1,536 births were notified by midwives,
137 by the Home for Mothers and Babies, 325 by medical practitioners
and 552 by other persons. 88 still-births were notified
(64, 79, 59, 75 and 77 in 1912 to 1916 respectively). Of the
still-born, 44 were males and 44 females.
The Notification of Births Act was adopted on March 1st.
1908. There were 148 births last year which were not notified.
All the midwives and Doctors who neglected to notify were cautioned.
The excuse generally given was that the notification must have
been lost in the post.
6. The following table gives the birth rate of the Borough
during the years 1901-5, 1906—10, 1911-1915, 1916 and 1917, and,
for the purposes of comparison, the corresponding; rates of the
neighbouring Boroughs, London, and England:-
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