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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: Table 5.Showing the estimatedPopulations, Areas, DensitiesandDeath. ratesof the Metropolitan Boroughs, 1901,arranged in order of density.

Table 5.

Showing the estimatedPopulations, Areas, DensitiesandDeath. ratesof the Metropolitan Boroughs, 1901,arranged in order of density.

Boroughs.Population.Area. Acres.Density. Persons per acre.Death.rate from all Causes.Zymotic Death.rate.
Woolwich117,6198,27614.214.61.51
Lewisham128,5807.01518.313.01 62
Greenwich96,1883,85224.915.32.17
Wandsworth233,9439,12925.618.41.55
Hampstead82,2872,26536.310.61.02
City of London26,62767139.720.11.06
Hammersmith112,6192,28649.317.02.86
Camberwell259,8974,48058.016.52.44
Stoke Newington51,23886359.018.11.26
Hackney219,7803,28866.815.72.14
Deptford110,7321,56270.816'52.48
Poplar168,8872,32772.620.08.04
City of Westminister182,5022,50272.916.01.34
Lambeth302,4604,08074.117.82.15
Kensington176,7872,29177.115.21.83
Battersea169,3642,16078.416.42.76
Fulham138,4261,70381.215.82.81
Bermondsey130,3481,50086.920.92.90
St. Pancras235,2972,69487.318.22.40
St. Marylebone133,0601,74290.416.61.65
Paddington144,1541,356106.414.81.72
Islington335,3253,092108.415.91.87
Chelsea73,879660111.916.61.31
Holborn59,205405146.120.12.28
Stepney298,8841,765169.320.92.54
Bethnal Green129,700750171.820.82.88
Finsbury101,623589172.221.42.75
Shoreditch118,554658180.121.82.98
Southwark206,2191,131182.321.53.02
County of London4,544,98374,83960.717.12.22