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to compare the healthiness of the respective districts. Not only
should one scrutinize the figures upon which the calculation is
based, but one should compare the individual factors which
make up the total. Moreover, the age, sex, occupation and
social advantages of the residents of a district have often more
influence on the death rate than the situation, soil, or even
sanitation.
I make these remarks, not to minimise the satisfactory aspect
of our health report this year, but merely to call attention to
these points in order that wrong inferences may not be drawn
from the figures given.
The excess of births over deaths was 365, being a natural
increase in the population of 12.4 per 1,000.
The number of deaths in the various wards of the Borough
was as follows:—
Town Ward 46
Plaistow Ward 47
Bickley Ward 49
Sundridge Ward 30
Bromley Common Ward 79
Martin's Hill Ward 49
300
Tn addition there were 4 deaths in the Workhouse which I
could not apportion to any ward.
Owing to building having taken place much more rapidly in
some wards compared with others, I have been unable to estimate
the population, and therefore the death rates in the respective
wards.