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 Greenwich]
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VITAL AND MORTAL STATISTICS, 1917.
POPULATION.
The number of persons estimated to be living at the middle
of 1917 was for the Death Rate 90,440 and for the Birth Rate
100,815.
The distribution of the population throughout the Borough is as follows:—
Census, 1911. | Estimated Population at middle of year 1917. Calculated on | ||
---|---|---|---|
Death Rate. | Birth Rate. | ||
East Greenwich | 45,960 | 43,544 | 48,539 |
West Greenwich | 22,933 | 21,544 | 24,015 |
St. Nicholas | 7,290 | 6,849 | 7,634 |
Charlton | 16,910 | 15,814 | 17,629 |
Kidbrooke | 2,875 | 2689 | 2,998 |
Total | 95,968 | 90,440 | 100,815 |
MARRIAGES.
The Superintendent-Registrar of the Greenwich Registration
District has kindly furnished the with the particulars relating to
the number of marriages solemnized in the Parishes of Greenwich
and St. Nicholas. The Superintendent-Registrar for the
Woolwich Registration District has also kindly supplied the particulars
for the Parishes of Charlton and Kidbrooke, with the
exception, in these latter particulars, that the Carriages performed
in the Woolwich Superintendent-Registrar's Office and in Chapels
in Charlton and Kidbrooke, of residents in those Parishes, are
not included.
The following table shows these particulars, giving the number of marriages in Greenwich and St. Nicholas, etc., for each year since 1910.
Year. | In Churches of England in Greenwich. | In Churches of England in Charlton anc Kidbrooke. | In St. Nicholas Parish Church. | Marriages in Superintendent - Registrar's Office of parties resident in Greenwich, or outside the Registration District, and in Chapels and Roman Catholic Church in St. Nicholas and Greenwich. | ce Total. | Approximate Population of the districts concerned. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1910 | 304 | 110 | 53 | 243 | 710 | 112935 |
1911 | 309 | 123 | 34 | 230 | 696 | 95982 |
1912 | 266 | 102 | 59 | 228 | 655 | 95992 |
1913 | 295 | 120 | 51 | 259 | 725 | 96015 |
1914 | 279 | 135 | 72 | 243 | 729 | 96037 |
1915 | 472 | 188 | 95 | 406 | 1161 | 96385 |
1916 | 381 | 145 | 74 | 324 | 924 | 94452 |
1917 | 343 | 128 | 67 | 653 | 1191 | 90440 |