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Woolwich, in Kent, has an area about six times as great as
the East and Central divisions together, but a population
which does not equal that of these two divisions combined.
"In it there is still abundance of uncovered ground; there
are also compact masses of population, chiefly where Lambeth,
St. George's, Southwark, St. Saviour's, St. Olave's, Bermondsey,
and Newington lie, within the northward sweep of the
river. Wandsworth, Owberwell, Rotherhithe, Greenwich,
and Lewisham complete the South division.
"A review of the tables apparently justifies the observation,
that in none of the London divisions are the signs of sanitary
improvement more legible than in this extensive Southern
section."—[Registrar General.]
In table No. 3, I give you the estimated population of
Hampstead, calculated logarithmally, with the number of
deaths and the rate of mortality per 1,000 during the year
1867.
Hampstead is a district which may bo considered as more
analogous to our own than any other of the Metropolitan
districts, and it is one in which the average rate of mortality
per 1000 was a little less than our own in the ten years
between 1801 and 1861.
TABLE III.
Metropolitan
District.
Enumerated
population,
census 1851.
Enumerated
population,
census 1861.
Estimated
population to
middle of
1867.
Number
of
deaths,
1867.
Average
mortality
1867.
Parish of
Hampstead
11986
19106
25580
409
1598
The number of births registered in the Lewisham District
during the year 1867 amounted to 1,424, or at the rate of
33 77 per 1,000, and were 788 in excess of the deaths.
In table No. 4, I give you the births and deaths in the
different Registrar's sub-districts in Lewisham Parish and
Penge Hamlet, comprising together " The Lewisham District,"
with the mortality of the several Public Institutions.