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REPORT
to
The Board of Works for the Lewisham district
TO THE END OF THE YEAR 1878,
by
F. EACHUS WILKINSON, M.D., &c.,
Medical Officer of Health for the District.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour of submitting to you my Report
of the Sanitary State of the Lewisham District during the
year 1878, consisting of the following tables:—
In Table I. (page 6), will be found the estimated
population, inhabited houses, and the births, deaths, and
marriages, in the district during the year, and also during
the preceding ten years.
In Table II. (page 7), the annual rate of mortality,
death rates amongst children, and death rates in the public
institutions.
In Table III. (page 8), the deaths registered at several
groups of ages from different causes during the year.
In Table IV. (page 14), the mortality from certain
classes of diseases, and proportion to population.
In Table V. (page 15), the number of deaths in the
10 years 1868 to 1877, from the seven principal zymotic
diseases, and the number in 1878.
In Table VI. (page 16,) the Inspectors' Report of sanitary
work done during the year.
In Table VII. (page 17,) the number of inhabited
houses, the estimated population, 1878, with the birth and
death rate in the different Registrars' Sub-districts in
Lewisham Parish and the Hamlet of Penge, together comprising
"the Lewisham District."
In Table VIII. (page 18), the area, census population in