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ANNUAL REPORT
FOR THE YEAR 1860,
BY
F. E. WILKINSON, M.D., &c.,
Medical officer of Health for the District.
Gentlemen,
In accordance with the provisions of the 43rd section of the
Metripolis Local Management Act, I have again the honour
of laying before you my report of the sanitary state of the Lewisham
District.
In table I. (see p. 25) I have given the enumerated population
for 1851 and 1861;
The estimated population, calculated logarithmally, to the
middle of 1(which will probaby he found incorrect, in consequence
of the irregular and diminished population in some
parts);
The estimated population at so many per house, taking the
number per house in 1861 (the last census);
The number of inhabited houses, 1851 census;
The number of inhabited houses, 1861 census;
The number of inhabited houses rated at £20 and under in
the middle of 1869;
The number of inhabited houses rated above £20 in the
middle of 1689;
The total number of inhabited houses at the middle of 1869;
The average number of persons per house, 1851 census;
The average number of persons per house, 1861 census;
The average mortality per 1000, assuming a population obtained
from the number per house in 1861, and the number of
inhabited houses in 1869.
During the year 1868 the mortality of the whole of London
amounted to 77,933, and the mortality was at the rate of nearly
25 per 1000.
More than half of the deaths in London (41,584) occurred
under 20 years of age.