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Lewisham 1891

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]

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Table: TABLE VII.The number of Inhabited Houses, the Estimated Population,1891,nith the Birth and Death Iiate in the different Registrars' Sub-dintricts M I.cicishum Parish ami the Hamlet of Pengc, together comprising "The Leicisham District."

TABLE VII.

The number of Inhabited Houses, the Estimated Population,1891,nith the Birth and Death Iiate in the different Registrars' Sub-dintricts M I.cicishum Parish ami the Hamlet of Pengc, together comprising "The Leicisham District."

Registrars' Sub-districts.Number of Inhabited Houses, Midsummer, 1891.Estimated Population.Number of Births 1891.Birth Rate per 1000.Number of deaths 1891.Death Rate per 1000.
Black heath, the part of Lewisham Parish in the Sub-district of Lee1167688612718.49914.3
Lewisham, the part of Lewinhnm Parish in the Sub-district of LewishamVillage53643158895930.558418.4
Sydenham Chapelry51963419795527.942712.4
Parish of Lewisham1231772671204128.0111015.2
Hemlet of Penge33261962448024.424512.4
The Lewisham District1564392295252127.3135514.6

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Note.— Explaining how the population of the Lewisham District, at Midsummer,
1890, came to be estimated at 4000 in excess of the actual number.
The population of the Lewisham District, at Midsummer, 1890, was estimated
at 94,458, or about 4000 in excess of the actual number. At the census
of 1881 it was calculated, from the known number of inhabited houses, that the
average number of inmates per house was, in Lewisham, 6.15; and in Penge,
6.65. It was on this basis that the population at Midsummer, 1890, was
calculated. Taking the figures ascertained at the census of 1891, however, it
is found that the average number of inmates per house is only 5.9. Supposing
the average number of inmates per inhabited house at Midsummer, 1890, to
have been 6, the actual population at that time would be 90,564, or 4000 less
than the previous estimate. It appears, therefore, that during the last decade
houses have increased at the rate of 43 per cent., while the population has
travelled at the slower rate of 37 per cent., hence the discrepancy.