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TABLE I.
1867.
Registrar's
Sub-Districts.
Enumerated Population, 1851.
Enumerated Population, 1861.
Estimated Population as calculated
Logarithmally to the
middle of 1867.
Estimated Population at so
many per house, taking the
number per house in 1861.
Number of Inhabited Houses,
1851 (Census).
Number of Inhabited Houses,
1861 (Census).
Number of Inhabited Houses,
middle of 1867.
Average number of persons per
house(1851).
Average number of persons per
house(1861).
Average mortality per 1000, assuming
a population obtained
from the number per house
in 1861 and the number of
inhabited houses in 1867.
Blackheath
a part of Lewishham
Parish in
Sub-District of
Lee)
4466
4841
5080
5190
728
807
868
6 13
598
12.52
Lewisham
(a part of Lewisham
Parish in
Sub-District of
Lewisham
lage)
6097
7372
8273
9078
1088
1326
1677
5.6
5.35
*16.41
Sydenham
Chapelry
4501
10595
17695
17746
801
1656
2572
5.61
6.9
13.58
The whole of
Lewisham Parish
15064
22788
31048
32014
2617
3789
5117
5.75
6.02
Hamlet Of
Pence
1169
5015
12015
11400
153
668
1520
7.64
7.50
12.01
16233
27803
43063
43414
This docs not include the mortality of the Union Workhouse.
"During the year 1867 the mortality of the whole of the
Metropolis amounted to 70,588. Of these deaths, zymotic
diseases were fatal in 15,027 cases, or more than one-fifth
part of the whole. This aggregate result was however considerably
less than it had been in any previous year since
1860.
"The rate of mortality was 22.98 per 1,000.
"The following table, No. 2, compiled from the Registrar
General's Summary of Weekly Returns for 1867, gives the
population of the Metropolis and 12 other large towns,
together with the rate of mortality.