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TABLE I.
Population, Inhabited Houses, Births, Deaths, and Marriages.
(gross numbers.)
Population Estimated at
the middle of the
Year.*
No. of
Inhabited
Houses in
District.
Births.
Deaths.**
Marriages.
1873
54462
8856
1779
791
329
1872
53085
8174
1693
788
1871
50022
7644
1574
815
1870
47422
7270
1568
806
1869
47338
7177
1555
756
1868
43727
6693
1513
761
1867
43414
6637
1424
636
1866
39525
6080
1314
675
1865
33033
1188
552
1864
31875
1118
598
1863
30139
1022
533
Average of 10 years,
1863—1872
1396.9
692.0
NOTES.
1. Population at Census 1871, 49727.
2. Area in acres, 6544.
3. Average No. of Persons in each house at Census 1871, 6.1/5.
* For statistical purposes the Registrar-General estimates the population to
the middle of the year as the basis of the rate of increase ruling between the
two preceding Census periods. The estimate of population now calculated is
from the known number of inhabited houses, and by the average number of
inmates per house, as ascertained at the preceding Census.
* * The deaths of wow-parishioners in public institutions within the Lewisham
District, as far as can be ascertained, are pretty evenly balanced by the mortality
of inhabitants out of the District; thus, 7 non-parishioners have died in the
Union Workhouse, and 6 in the North Surrey District School, whilst 10 parishioners
have died out of the District in the Croydon Union Workhouse alone.