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Lewisham 1870
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]
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The mortality of the rest of the kingdom \vn9 at the rate
of 221 per 1000.
The estimated population of London is 3,214,707. (The
population within the police area extending over a circle.
having Charing Cross as its centre, and a radius of 10 miles,
is estimated 3,753,763.)
The mortality of London during the year 1870 was 77,278;
of these, 18,001 died under the age of 1 year.
The mean death rate is 24.34, and the mortality in 1870
is a little below this, being 2 1.12.
The mortality of the west and north districts rose above
the average in 1870. The effect of the drainage of the low
south district reduced the mortality in the three decenniads
since 1840 in the following progressive improvement, viz.,
20.6, 24.4, 23.2.—(Registrar General's Report.)
The estimated population of the Lewisham District in the
middle of the year 1870 amounted to 47,422.
| No. of Mortgage Deed. | Date. | Amount. | Rate of Interest per cent. | Mortgagees. | How Repayable. | Amount Repaid. | Amount of Sinking Fund for Repayment. | Amount remaining due 25th March, 1871. | Upon what Rates chargeable. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | £ | £ | |||||||||||||||
| 1856. July 10 | 6000 | 0 | Trustees for the Kent Life Office | No period or notice provided for in the Deed. See below* | 2550 | 0 | 0 | 1296 | 1 | 9 | 3450 | 0 | 0 | The Sewers Rates on the Parish of Lewisham | |||
| 2 | „ December 2 | 2000 | 0 | The same | The same. See below* | 950 | 0 | 0 | 1050 | 0 | 0 | The same | |||||
| 4 | 1858. October 28 | 2000 | 0 | 0 | Trustees fortheUnited Kingdom Provident Institution | By 20 equal annual instalments | 1200 | 0 | 0 | 800 | 0 | 0 | The Sewers Rates on the Hamlet of Penge | ||||
| 7 | 1861. November 7 | 2000 | 0 | 0 | Trustees for the Kent Life Office | *At this date the three mortgages to the Kent Life Office were merged into one for £9000, repayable by equal annual instalments of £400 in respect of the Mortgages Nos. 1 and 2, and of £100 in respect of Mortgage No. 7 | 2000 | 0 | 0 | The Sewers Rates on the Parish of Lewisham | |||||||
| 8 | 1862. August 28 | 1722 | 12 | 11 | Messrs. Daikers, Stanger, and Wright, as Trustees of the Board of the Penge Gravel Allotment Fund—now transferred into the names of Messrs. Stanger, Elkington, and Griffin | By 20 equal annual instalments—re-invested on deposit with the London and Westminster Bank | 839 | 5 | 0 | 1722 | 12 | 11 | The Sewers Rates on the Hamlet of Penge | ||||
| 9 | 1863. November 19 | 1000 | 0 | 0 | Trustees for the Kent Life Office | By 20 equal annual instalments | 350 | 0 | 0 | 650 | 0 | 0 | The Sewers Rates on the Parish of Lewisham | ||||
| 10 | 1864. July 14 | 4000 | 0 | 0 | The same | The same | 1200 | 0 | 0 | 2800 | 0 | 0 | The Sewers Rates on the Hamlet of Penge | ||||
| 11 | 1865. June 15 | 1000 | 0 | 0 | The same | By 10 equal annual instalments | 500 | 0 | 0 | 500 | 0 | 0 | The General Rate on the Parish of Lewisham | ||||
| 12 | 1867. January 24 | 6000 | 0 | 0 | Trustees for the Atlas Assurance Company | By 20 equal annual instalments | 1200 | 0 | 0 | 4800 | 0 | 0 | The Sewers Rates on the Parish of Lewisham | ||||
| 13 | 4000 | 0 | 0 | The same | The same | 800 | 0 | 3200 | 0 | 0 | The Sewers Rates on the Hamlet of Penge | ||||||
| 14 | 1869. March. 18 | 1500 | 0 | Trustees for the United Kingdom Temperance and General Provident Institution | By 10 equal annual instalments | 300 | 0 | 1200 | 0 | 0 | The General Rate on the Hamlet of Penge | ||||||
| 15 | 1870. February 4 | 3000 | 0 | 0 | £4 15s. | Provident Clerk's Mutual Life Assurance Association | By 20 equal annual instalments | 160 | 0 | 0 | 2840 | 0 | 0 | The Sewers Rates on the Parish of Lewisham | |||
| 16 | 1870. November 12 | 3000 | £4 15s. | The same | The same | 300C | 0 | The General Rates on the Parish of Lewisham | |||||||||
| £37222 | 12 | 11 | £11210 | £2135 | 6 | 9 | £26012 | 12 | 11 | ||||||||
In which district in the year ending the 31st December,
1870, 1568 children were born and 806 persons died.