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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 1887

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]

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Table: TABLE I.Shewing the Population, Inhabited Houses, Marriages, Births, and Deaths, for the Year 1887, and 10 years preceding.■ GROSS NUMBERS.

TABLE I.

Shewing the Population, Inhabited Houses, Marriages, Births, and Deaths, for the Year 1887, and 10 years preceding.

■ GROSS NUMBERS.

Population at the middle of the yaer 1887Estimated No of Inhabited Houses.Marriages.Registered Births.Corrected No. of Deaths.Death. in Public Institutions.
Total All Ages.I'mler On® Year.Umlrr Five Years.
58,600.8,012.420.2,064.1,450.363.626.349.
18868,0124002,0161,470360650249
1885"4082,1241,490345625376
1884"4492,2021,369306584249
1883"4942,1531,478367687247
1882"4682,2751,469352693237
1881"4682,1761,428322595258
1880"4842,2101,540371732250
18797,8205042,2861,554390711250
1878"5442,2401,484372667255
1877"5272,1461,513356683269
Average of 10 yrs. 1877 867,9544742,1821,479354662264
NOTES.
1. Population at Census, 1881, 58,543.
2. Average No. of Persons in each house at Census 1881, 7.3.
3. Area of District in acres, 576.