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The mortality of the Lewisham District continues as ever
to compare favourably with that of the other outskirts of the
Metropolis, as the elevated nature and undulating character
of the district would lead one to suppose.
Whilst the rate of mortality of the Lewisham District
was 16.41, that of Clapham was 22.12, and that of Norwood
was 17.79 per 1000.
London.
The number of persons enumerated in April, 1871, within
the registration district of London, after revision at the
Census Office, was found to be 3,254,260, whilst in 1801 it
was but 958,863.
The revised area is given as 78,080 acres, or 122 square
miles; this includes 2718 acres of the Thames. The mean
density of population in this area was 42 persons per acre.
In 1801 it was only 12, whilst it successively increased at
each census enumeration to 36 in 1861.
In the Central district at the last census the mean density
was 150; whilst it was 107 in the East, 56 in the North, 52
in the West, and only 21 in the South districts, which
include considerably more than half the entire area of London.
Amongst the 137 Registration districts, the density
ranged from 1 person per acre in Eltham and 3 each in
Lewisham and Dulwich, to 410 and 418 respectively in St.
Andrews and White Cross sub-districts of Holborn, and 429
in Berwick Street sub-district of Westminster.
The deaths at all ages in London last year include 7846
which were referred to small-pox, 1431 to measles, 1896 to
scarlet fever, 313 to diptheria, 2299 to whooping cough, 1746
to different forms of fever, and 3894 to diarrhoea; in all
19,445, or 24.2 per cent. of the deaths from all causes.
No less than 14,655 deaths in London last year, or 18.3
per cent. of the total deaths, were recorded in the large
Metropolitan Institutions; of these, 6675 occurred in workhouses.
The deaths recorded in Public Institutions form a most
disturbing element in calculating local rates of mortality.