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Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
Public Health Department,
Town Hall
New Cross Road, S.E. 14.
December, 1921.
To the the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan
Borough of Deptford.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit the Annual Report on the Health of
the Borough for the year 1920. Included are the statistical tables as
prescribed by the Ministry of Health.
The Report has been shortened by avoiding repetition of matters
which have been fully dealt with in the reports of my predecessor.
The estimated population for the middle of the year 1920 was :
for the civil population, 1 15,636; and the total population 115,772.
The birth-rate for the year was 28.3 per 1,000, which is 7.8 more
than that for the previous year, and 1.8 more than for the whole of
London.
The deaths during the year were 1,408 being 61 less than in the
previous year. The death-rate was 12.2 (the lowest recorded) compared
with 13.0 per 1,000 for the previous year.
The year 1920 furnished a record in having the lowest infantile
mortality, the rate being 79 per 1,000 births, as compared with 85 in
1919, which year was also, at that time, the lowest.
As regards infectious diseases, there were during the year 723 cases
of Scarlet Fever fairly generally distributed throughout the Borough,
but the East, North and North-West Wards were more affected than
the others. Out of all these Scarlet Fever cases there were but two
deaths.
Cases of Diphtheria numbered 315, with 21 deaths, the cases being
mostly in the North-West and North Wards.