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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lewisham 1873
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]
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use. Goose-neck pipes have been fixed to most of the stand
posts.
LIGHTING.
There are at present in the Parish of Lewisham 522 lamps
lighted by the Crystal Palace District Gas Company, at a contract
price of £4 3s. 4d. per lamp per annum ; and 417 lighted by the
Phoenix Gas Company, at a contract price of £5 per annum.
In the Hamlet of Penge there are 282 lamps lighted by the
Crystal Palace District Gas Company, at a contract price of
£4 3s. 4d. per lamp per annum.
| Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated Population in the middle of the year 1873. | Persons to an Acre, middle of 1873. | Births in 53 Weeks ending 3rd Jan., 1874. | Deaths in 53 Weeks ending 3rd Jan., 1874. | Annual Rate per 1000 living. | Mean Temperature in 53 Weeks ending 3rd Jan., 1874. | Rainfall in inches in 53 Weeks ending 3rd Jan., 1874. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Births in 53 Weeks ending 3rd Jan., 1874. | Deaths in 52 weeks ending December. | Deaths in 53 Weeks ending 3rd Jan., 1874. | ||||||||||
| 1873. | 1869. | 1870. | 1871. | 1872. | 1873. | |||||||
| In 21 Towns in United Kingdom | 7507575 | 36.1 | 282569 | 186094 | 37.1 | 26.2 | 258 | 269 | 243 | 24.4 | 47.9 | Inches. 26.93 |
| London | 3356073 | 44.5 | 121100 | 76634 | 35.5 | 24.6 | 24.0 | 24.6 | 21.4 | 22.5 | 48.9 | 23.76 |
| Portsmouth | 118280 | 26.4 | 4101 | 2194 | 34.4 | 22.3 | 22.1 | 19.3 | 22.9 | 18.4 | 49.2 | ... |
| Norwich | 81677 | 10.9 | 2728 | 1787. | 32.9 | 21.2 | 27.7 | 25.9 | 26.3 | 21.5 | 47.4 | 20.47 |
| Bristol | 189648 | 42.6 | 7061 | 4445 | 36.7 | 23.1 | 28.4 | 23.2 | 22.0 | 23.1 | ||
| Wolverhampton | 70084 | 20.6 | 2821 | 1788 | 39.6 | 26.1 | 23.5 | 28.0 | 25.9 | 25.1 | 47.9 | 26.90 |
| Birmingham | 355540 | 42.3 | 14515 | 9004 | 40.2 | 23.1 | 23.0 | 24.9 | 23.0 | 24.9 | 48.2 | 29.29 |
| Leicester | 102694 | 32.1 | 4539 | 2545 | 43.6 | 26.2 | 27.9 | 26.8 | 26.8 | 24.4 | ||
| Nottingham | 89577 | 44.9 | 3271 | 2107 | 36.0 | 24.2 | 249 | 26.0 | 25.3 | 23.2 | 475 | 20.85 |
| Liverpool | 505274 | 97.0 | 19106 | 13301 | 37.2 | 30.4 | 32.9 | 35.1 | 27.1 | 25.9 | 48.1 | 24.44 |
| Manchester | 354057 | 82.5 | 14037 | 10835 | 39.0 | 30.7 | 29.8 | 31.2 | 28.6 | 30.1 | ||
| Salford | 130468 | 25.2 | 5691 | 3884 | 42.9 | 26.4 | 25.8 | 30.4 | 25.8 | 29.3 | 47.6 | 32.24 |
| Oldham | 85141 | 18.2 | 3538 | 2235 | 40.9 | 25.7 | 27.0 | 24.9 | 31.1 | 25.8 | 3511 | |
| Bradford | 156609 | 24.1 | 6362 | 3921 | 40'0 | 25.6 | 27.5 | 25.5 | 26.3 | 24.7 | 484 | 22.44 |
| Leeds | 272619 | 12.6 | 11524 | 7643 | 41.6 | 26.6 | 28.7 | 26.4 | 27.9 | 27.6 | 47.9 | 21.89 |
| Sheffield | 254352 | 12.9 | 10991 | 6654 | 42.5 | 28.7 | 26.5 | 28.3 | 26.0 | 25.8 | 48.0 | 22.51 |
| Hull | 128125 | 35.2 | 5153 | 3101 | 39.7 | 27.4 | 23.8 | 23.2 | 26.1 | 23.9 | 47.1 | |
| Sunderland | 102450 | 31.0 | 4632 | 2371 | 44.5 | 22.9 | 20.9 | 36.5 | 26.5 | 22.8 | ||
| Newcstle-on-Tyne | 133246 | 24.8 | 5652 | 4059 | 41.9 | 27.2 | 25.4 | 32.2 | 26.3 | 30.1 | ||
| Edinburgh | 208553 | 47.1 | 6918 | 4659 | 32.7 | 27.6 | 23.7 | 26.9 | 26.5 | 22.0 | ||
| Glasgow | 498462 | 98.5 | 19798 | 14711 | 39.1 | 34.0 | 29.6 | 32.9 | 28.4 | 29.1 | 46.5 | 4515 |
| Dublin | 314666 | 313 | 9031 | 8216 | 28.3 | 24.7 | 24.9 | 26.2 | 28.5 | 48.9 | ||