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the whole Union, the Hospital, and other Institutions for
the aged, render the comparative mortality of Lewisham
fictitiously unfavourable; whilst the exportation of the
pauper sick to tho Croydon Union Workhouse, increases the
favourable aspect of Penge.
Table No. III. gives the number of births and deaths
which havo occurred in the different Registrar's sub-districts in
Lewisham Parish, and the Hamlet of Penge, together comprising
tho Lewisham District, with the mortality of the
several public institutions.
TABLE III.
Registrar's Sub-districts
BIRTHS.
DEATHS.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Black heath
63
59
122
42
38
80
Lewisham
226
192
418
91
97
188
Union Workhouse
-
-
-
15
13
28
Sydenham
314
325
639
146
170
316
Penge
198
197
395
87
90
177
N. Surrey District School
—
—
—
14
6
20
Watermen's Asylum
—
-
—
3
2
5
Royal Naval Asylum
—
-
—
—
1
1
Total
801
773
1574
398
417
815
The excess of births over deaths in the different divisions
of the district has been in Blackheath 42, Lewisham 230,
Sydenham 323, Penge 218.
During the year 1871, 184 persons died of zymotic
diseases, of whom
19 died of Smallpox.
26 „ Measles.
25 „ Scarlet Fever.
8 „ Diptheria.
6 „ Croup.
16 „ Whooping Cough.
17 „ Typhoid Fever, &c,
2 „ Erysipelas.
2 „ Puerperal Fever.
1 ,, Pyœmia.
1 ,, Influenza.
2 ,, Dysentery.
41 ,, Diarrhœa.