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Lewisham 1869
[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 calculated
logarithmally to the
middle of 1869.
Estimated population at so many
per house, taking the number
per house in 1861.
Number of Inhabited Houses,
1851 census.
Number of Inhabited Houses,
census, 1861,
Houses rated at £20 and under
middle of 1869.
Houses rated above £20 middle
of 1869.
Number of Inhabited Houses,
middle of 1869.
Average number of persons per
house (1851).
Average number of persons per
house (1861).
Average mortality per 1000, assuming
a population obtained
from the number per house
in 1861, and the number of
inhabited houses in 1869.
TABLE I. TABLE I.
Blackheath—
(a part of Lewisham Parish
in the Sub-district of Lee)
4466
4841
5163
5938
728
807
384
609
993
6.13
5.98
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Lewisham—
(a part of Lewisham Parish
in the Sub-District of
Lewisham Village
6097
7372
8581
9180
1088
1326
1070
653
1723
5.6
5.35
20.04
Sydenham Chapelry
4501
10595
21010
17933
801
1656
1109
1447
2556
5.61
6.9
15.09
The whole of Lewisham
Parish
15064
22788
34754
33051
2617
3789
2563
2709
5272
5.75
6.02
Hamlet of Penge
1169
5015
16080
14287
153
668
546
1359
1905
7.64
7.50
11.55
16233
27803
50834
47338
2770
4457
3109
4068
7177