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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 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]
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| Year | Population estimated to Middle of each Year. | Births. | Total Deaths Register]) in the District. | Total Deaths in Public Institutions in the District. | Deaths of Non-residents registered in Public Institutions in the District. | Deaths of Residents registered in Public Institutions beyond the District. | Nett Deaths at all Ages belonging to the District. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number. | Rate.* | Under i Year of Age | At all Ages. | |||||||||
| Number. | Rate.* | |||||||||||
| Number. | Rate per iooo Births registered. | Number. | Rate.* | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 1901 | 128480 | 3320 | 25 9 | 426 | 128 | 1875 | 14-5 | 613 | 289 | 82 | 1668 | 130 |
| 1902 | 132432 | 3491 | 26 3 | 438 | 125 | 1942 | 13 9 | 568 | 241 | 117 | 1818 | 137 |
| 1903 | 136405 | 3563 | 261 | 330 | 93 | 1566 | 11-5 | 480 | 152 | 99 | 1513 | 111 |
Note.—Figures for years prior to 1901 are unobtainable.
Rates in Columns 4, 8 and 13 calculated per 1,000 of estimated population.
Area of District in Acres (exclusive of area covered
by water) — 6,991
At Census of 1901—Total population of all ages — 127,495
„ „ Number of inhabited houses — '22,750
„ „ Average number of persons per house 5*6
Institutions within the District receiving sick
and infirm persons from outside the District:—Lewisham
Union Infirmary; Lewisham Union Workhouse; Park Fever
Hospital; St. Olave's Union Workhouse; St. John's Hospital,
Morden Hill; Home for Sick Children, Lower Sydenham;
Flower House Asylum, Beckenham Hill; Nursing Home, Dartmouth
Koad.
Other Institutions.—The deaths of residents which have
been distributed among the several localities in the District: Brook
Hospital, South-Eastern Hospital, London Fever Hospital,