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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 1915
Annual report on the vital statistics and sanitary condition of the Borough of Lewisham for the year 1915
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EPITOME OF VITAL STATISTICS, 1915.
Area in acres 7,014
Population:—
Census, 1901 127,495
„ 1911 160,834
Estimated civil population to the middle of 1915 164,438
Average number of persons per house (Census, 1911) 5.6
Births 3,267
Birth Rate 19.3
Deaths 2,116
Death-rate 12.86
Deaths of infants under 1 year of age 258
Infant mortality per 1,000 Births 79
Zymotic Death-rate 0.91