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Lewisham 1866
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]
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of persons to each house as was found to prevail at the last
census, that of 1861.
In this plan of calculation the Registrar General fully concurs,
in a letter dated 22nd August. Thus, the number of
inhabited houses in Lewisham Parish, according to the poor
rate of July 1800, was 4,770, which, at six persons per house,
would crive the population at 29,700.
The number of inhabited houses in Penge, according to the rate made in May, 1866, was 1,310, which at 7½ persons per house, would give the population at that time as 9,825.
| Registrar's Sub-Districts. | Enumerated Population, 1851. | Enumerated Population, 1861. | Estimated Population as calcula-ted Logarithmally to the middle of 1867.6 | Estimated Population at so many per house. | Number of Inhabited Houses, 1851 (Census). | Number of Inhabited Houses, 1861 (Census). | Average N umber of Persons per house (1851). | Average Number of Persons per house (1861). | Number of Inhabited Houses, middle of 1866. _ ___ | Average Mortality per 1000. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackheath (a part of Lewis-ham Parish in Sub-District of Lee) | 4466 | 4841 | 5050 | 5047 | 728 | 807 | 6.13 | 5.98 | 844 | 17.05 |
| Lewisham (a part of Lewisham Parish in Sub-District of Lewisham Village) | 6097 | 7372 | 8144 | 8132 | 1088 | 1326 | 5.6 | 5.35 | 1520 | |
| Sydenham chapelry | 4501 | 10595 | 16607 | 16601 | 801 | 1656 | 5.61 | 6.9 | 2406 | |
| The whole of Lewisham Parish | 15064 | 22786 | 29801 | 29700 | 2617 | 3789 | 5.75 | 6.02 | 4770 | |
| Hamlet of Penge | 1169 | 5015 | 10772 | 9825 | 153 | 668 | 7.64 | 7.50 | 1310 |
Note.—The Statistical Reports as to population, and births
and deaths, refer to certain divisions for the purpose of registration,
entitled by the Registrar General, sub-districts, and
to each of which there is a Registrar of births and deaths
appointed.