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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Names of Localities. | LEE. | LEWISHAM. | SYDENHAM & FOREST HILL. | WHOLE BOROUGH. | ||||||||||||
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Year. | Population estimated to middle of each Year. | Births registered. | Deaths at all ages. | Deaths under i year. | Population estimated to middle of each Year. | Births registered. | Deaths at all ages. | Deaths under 1 Year. | Population estimated to middle of each year. | Births registered. | Deaths at all ages. | Deaths under i Year | Population estimated to middle of each year. | Births registered. | Deaths at all ages. | Deaths under i year. |
1901 | 18708 | 398 | 255 | — | 66631 | 1882 | 856 | _ | 43146 | 1040 | 557 | — | 128480 | 3320 | 1668 | — |
190*2 | 18925 | 481 | 220 | 37 | 69672 | 1857 | 991 | 261 | 43835 | 1153 | 607 | 130 | 132432 | 3491 | 1818 | 428 |
1903 | 19147 | 486 | 213 | 37 | 72731 | 1979 | 816 | 203 | 44527 | 1098 | 484 | 88 | 136405 | 3563 | 1513 | 328 |
1904 | 19370 | 469 | 193 | 40 | 75808 | 1967 | 941 | 265 | 45223 | 1153 | 545 | 135 | .40401 | 3589 | 1679 | 440 |
1905 | 19594 | 454 | 186 | 21 | 78903 | 2027 | 966 | 209 | 45923 | 1152 | 539 | 108 | 144420 | 3633 | 1691 | 338 |
1906 | 19820 | 445 | 211 | 40 | 82016 | 1871 | 1000 | 220 | 46627 | 1130 | 566 | 131 | 148463 | 3446 | 1777 | 391 |
1907 | 20047 | 446 | 214 | 31 | 85149 | 2063 | 995 | 186 | 47336 | 1113 | 540 | 108 | 152532 | 3622 | 1749 | 325 |
Institutions within the District receiving sick
and infirm persons from outside the District:—Lewisham
Union Infirmary; Lewisham Union Workhouse; Greenwich
Union Workhouse, Grove Park ; Park Fever Hospital ;
Bermondsey (St.- Olave's) Union Workhouse ; St. John's
Hospital, Morden Hill; Home for Sick Children, Lower
Sydenham ; Flower House Asylum, Southend.
Outside Institutions in which deaths of residents of this
District have occurred were:—St. Thomas's, Guy's, St.
Bartholomew's, Greenwich Miller, London, King's College,
Middlesex, Charing Cross, Greenwich Seamen's, French, German,