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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lewisham 1901
Annual report on the vital statistics and sanitary condition of the Borough of Lewisham for the year 1901
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Table 2.
Census 1901.
| Ward. | Inhabited Houses. | Uninhabited Houses. | Houses Building. | Persons per House. | Population. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In Occupation. | Not in Occupation. | Total. | Male. | Female. | |||||
| Lee Dvison. | Church | 1,147 | 32 | 77 | 2 | 5.59 | 6,412 | 2,556 | 3,856 |
| Manor | 1,190 | 25 | 67 | — | 5.6 | 6,734 | 3,008 | 3,726 | |
| South | 892 | 14 | 36 | 19 | 6.1 | 5,503 | 2,173 | 3,330 | |
| Lewisham Division. | Blackheath. | 1,146 | 24 | 41 | 2 | 5.8 | 6,729 | 2,814 | 3,915 |
| Lewisham Vill. | 2,549 | 61 | 71 | 128 | 5.4 | 13,842 | 6,449 | 7,393 | |
| Lewisham Park | 1,777 | 19 | 83 | 42 | 6.2 | 11,145 | 5,129 | 6,016 | |
| Brockley | 1,971 | 17 | 104 | 59 | 5.5 | 10,952 | 4,982 | 5,970 | |
| Catford | 4,404 | 47 | 262 | 185 | 5.2 | 23,203 | 10,968 | 12,235 | |
| Sydenham and Forest Hill Division. | Forest Hill | 3,325 | 66 | 212 | 102 | 5.4 | 18,051 | 7,835 | 10,216 |
| Sydenham | 4,349 | 75 | 264 | 59 | 5.2 | 24,924 | 10,835 | 14,089 | |
| The Entire Borough | 22,750 | 380 | 1,217 | 598 | 5.6 | 127,595 | 56,749 | 70,746 | |