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ANNUAL REPORT
MADE TO
The Board of Works for the Lewisham District,
FOR THE YEAR 1867,
BY
F. E. WILKINSON, M.D., L.R.C.P.E., M.R.C.S., L A.C.,
Medical Officcr of Health for the lewisham District;
Mcdical Officer to North Surrey District School;
Surgeon P Division of Police.
Gentlemen,
As enacted by the 43rd section of the Metropolis Local
Management Act of 1862, the duty devolves upon me to present
you with a report upon the sanitary state of the Lewisham
District during the year ending December, 1867.
In presenting this report it is first necessary to ascertain
the population of the district (Table No. 1.), which I have
estimated in the same way as last year, i.e., by ascertaining
from the several rate collectors the number of inhabited
houses as near the middle of the year as possible, and taking
the same average number of persons per house as were found
to be resident at the census of 1861.
From this estimated population, which is no doubt calculated
upon a reliable basis, and which method of calculation
has the approval of the Registrar General, the average mortality
per 1,000 is calculated.
I have, however, given in another column the population
estimated logarithmally, supposing that the same rate of
increase had gone on up to the middle of 1867 as was found
to prevail between 1851 and 1861.