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Scarlet fever, whooping cough, and diarrhœa were the reigning
epidemics of the year, and to them 12,958 deaths, or about
one-sixth of the total mortality were referred.
Table II. (see p. 20), compiled from the Registrar General's
summary of weekly returns for 1869, gives the population of
London and thirteen other large towns, together with the rate of
mortality.
In table III. I give the population of Hampstead (a similar
district to that of Lewisham), estimated logarithmally with
the number of deaths, and the rate of mortality per 1000.
TABLE III.
Metropolitan
District.
Enumerated
population,
census 1851.
Enumerated
population,
census 1861.
Estimated
population to
middle of
1869.
Number
of
deaths,
1869.
Average
mortality
1869.
Parish of
Hampstead
11986
19106
27743
458
1605
The number of births registered in the Lewisham District
during the year 189 amounted to 1555, or at the rate of 33.08
per 1000, and were 799 in excess of the number of deaths.
In table IV. I give you the number of births and deaths in
the different Registrar's sub-districts in Lewisham Parish and the
Hamlet of Penge, comprising together the Lewisham District,
with the mortality of the several public institutions.
TABLE IV.
Registrar's Sub-districts.
BIRTHS.
DEATHS.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Blackheath
79
68
137
34
32
66
Lewisham
220
188
408
88
100
188
Union Workhouse
-
-
-
24
22
46
Sydenham
315
330
645
139
147
286
Penge
199
166
365
87
78
165
N. Surrey District School
-
-
-
2
1
3
Watermen's Asylum
-
-
-
1
1
2
Total
813
742
1555
375
381
756
Table V. gives the total mortality for the previous 13 years.
TABLE V.
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
345
375
409
433
455
405
497
533
598
552
674
636
761