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Lewisham 1868
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]
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Registrar's
Sub-Districts.
Enumerated Population, 1851.
Enumerated Population, 1861.
Estimated Population as calcu-???
lated Logarithmally to the
middle of 1868.
Estimated Population at so ???
many per house, taking the ???
number per house in 1861.
Number of Inhabited Houses
1851 (Census).
Number of Inhabited Houses,???
1861 (Census).
Houses rated at £20 and under???
middle of 1868.
Houses rated above .£20 midd???
of 1868.
Number of Inhabited House???
middle of 1868.
Average number of persons???
house (1851).
Average number of persons ???
house (1861).
Average mortalit per 1000,???
Burning a population obtai???
from the number per ???
in 1861 and the numbe???
inhabited houses in 1868.6
TABLE I.
Blackheath
(a part of Lewisham
Parish in
Sub-District of
Lee)
4466
4841
5122
5447
728
807
359
552
911
6.13
5.98
10.83
Lewisham
(a part of Lewisham
Parish in
Sub-Districtof
Lewisham Village)
Sydenham
Chapelry
6097
4501
7372
10595
8420
19290
8757
17981
1088
801
1326
1656
1073
1168
564
1438
1637
2606
5.6
5.61
5.35
6.9
*19.29
17.96
The whole of
Lewisham Parish
15064
22788
32832
32185
2617
3789
2600
2554
5154
5.75
6.02
Hamlet of
Penge
1169
5015
13890
11542
153
668
395
1144
1539
7.64
7.50
15.5
16233
27803
46722
43727
2770
4457
2995
3698
6693
16.69
• This does not include the mortality at the Union Workhouse.