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The average mortality per 1000, assuming a population
obtained from the number per house in 1861, and the number
of inhabited houses in 1868.
During tho year 1868 the mortality of the whole of
London amounted to 74,908. Of these deaths, zymotic
diseases were fatal in 14,142 cases.
This result was less than that of the previous year.
Diarrhoea was unusually fatal: 4060 deaths, and 320 from
simple cholera were registered.
The other fatal zymotic diseases were—fever, 2483 deaths;
scarlatina, 2921; whooping cough, 2369; measles, 1989.
The number of inhabited houses was about 400,778, each
occupied by about eight people (7.8), nearly twice that of an
average family.
Table No. II. (see p. 14), compiled from the Registrar
General's Summary of Weekly Returns for 1868, gives the
population of London and thirteen other large towns, together
with the rate of mortality.
In table, No. 3, I give the population of Hampstead
(a similar district to that of Lewisham), estimated logarithmally,
with the number of deaths and the rate of mortality
per 1000.
TABLE III.
Metropolitan
District.
Enumerated
population,
census 1851.
Enumerated
population,
census 1861.
Estimated
population to
middle of
1868.
Number
of
deaths,
1868.
Average
mortality
1868.
Parish of
Hampstead
11986
19106
26480
402
15.18
The number of births registered in the Lewisham District
during the year amounted to 1513, or at the rate of 34.6 per
1000, and were 752 in excess of the deaths.
In table No. 4, I give you the returns of births and deaths
in the different Registrar's sub-districts in Lewisham Parish
and the Hamlet of Penge, comprising together " The Lewisham
District," with the Mortality of the several Public
Institutions.