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Metropolis Local Management Acts, and
Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
ELTHAM.
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR 1896.
To the Board of Works for the Lee District.
Gentlemen,
1. During the past year there were 130 births—67 male and
63 female; giving a birth rate of 21.9 per 1,000—that for the
whole of London being 30.2. There were 75 deaths registered
as occurring in the district, and 17 in "Outlying" places, of
persons belonging to it, making 92 in all. From these five deaths
have to be deducted of persons dying in the district not belonging
to it; so that the correct number is 87. This gives a death
rate of 14.71—that for the whole of London being 18.6.
2. A "Quinquennial" census was taken, of all the London
parishes, in 1896, which fixed the population of Eltham at 5911,