Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]
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TABLE VII.
Registrars’ Sub-districts | Number of Inhabited Houses, Midsummer, 1887. | Estimated Population. | Number of Births, 1887 | Birth Rate per 1000. | Number of Deaths 1887 | Rate of Mortality per 1000. |
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Black heath, the part of Lewisham Parish in the sub-district of Lee | 1133 | 6968 | 146 | 20.8 | 97 | 11.0 |
Lewisham, the part of Lewisham Parish in the Sub-district of Lewisham Village | 4503 | 27693 | 860 | 31.0 | 444 | 16.0 |
Sydenham Chapelry | 5068 | 31107 | 890 | 28.6 | 410 | 13.1 |
Parish or Lewisham | 10694 | 65768 | 1896 | 28.8 | 951 | 14.4 |
Hamlet of Penge | 3106 | 20655 | 458 | 22.1 | 240 | 11.1 |
The Lewisham District | 13800 | 86423 | 2354 | 27.2 | 1191 | 13.7 |