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ANNUAL REPORT
TO
The Board of Works For the Fewisham District
FOR THE YEAR 1872,
BY
F. EACHUS WILKINSON, M.D., &c.
Medical officer of Health for District.
Gentlemen,
As provided by the Metropolis Local Management Act,
1862 (25 and 26 Vict., cap. 102), I have again the honour
of laying before you a report of the estimated population,
together with the births and deaths registered in the Lewishum
District during the year 1872.
In Table I. (sec p. 6), I have given the enumerated population
at the three decenniad*, 1851, 1861, and 1871.
I he estimated population for the year 1872, obtained by
ascertaining from the rate book* the number of inhabited
houses at as near the middle of the year as possible, and
calculating the same number of persons per house as were
found to bo resident when the census of 1871 was taken.
The number of inhabited houses at the censuses of 1851,
1861, and 1871, with the average number of persons per
house at these periods.
The average mortality per 1000, assuming a population
obtained as above mentioned.
Table II. gives the mortality in the Metropolitan and City
Police District* from the Registrar General's summary.
Table III., the mortality of the Suburbs of London.
Table IV., the mortality of 20 cities and towns of the
united kingdom.
Table V., the causes of and ages at death in the Lewisham
District.
Table VI., the number of deaths which have taken place
from certain epidemic diseases during the last 14 years.
Table VII., the births and deaths in the each of the
Registrar General's divisions of the Lewisham District.
Table VIII., the quality of the Water Supply of this and
other Metropo itan Districts, from Dr. Frankland's analysis.
Table IX., the causes of death and ages at death in the
District.