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REPORT
TO
The board of Works for the Lewisham District
TO THE END OF THE YEAR 1875,
BY
F. EACHUS WILKINSON, M.I)., &c,
Medical Officer of Health for the District.
Gentlemen,
Twenty years have elapsed since the constitution
of the Lewisham District Hoard of Works in 185G, when I
had the honour to be appointed your Medical Officer of
Health, and we have arrived at the close of the second
decenniad, during the whole of which time I have held
the appointment, and I hope to the credit and satisfaction
of the Members of the Board.
Various changes in public opinion, and considerable
advances in sanitary knowledge have taken place since that
time, and I believe that the Lewisham District Board of
Works has not been behind hand in the race for sanitary
improvement.
Many points which I have had the honour of pressing
upon your attention from time to time have now become
established and generally received facts, and I have thought
it not uninteresting at this period of time to collate from
previous reports many of the remarks and statements to
which it was my duty to call your attention in previous
years.
Estimate of Population as compared with Census.
1871.—A correct estimate of the population from year to
year is an essential foundation for the calculation of sanitary