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REPORT
to
The Board of Works for the Lewisham District
TO THE END OF THE YEAR 1879,
by
F. EACHUS WILKINSON, M.D., &c.,
Medical Officer of Health for the District.
Gentlemen,
According to annual custom, I have the honour of
submitting to you my Report of the Sanitary State of the
Lewisham District for the year 1879; which year, judging
from the rate of mortality, was above the average of healthiness
of several previous years.
The population estimated to the middle of the year 1879
amounted to 67,084, living in 10,908 houses.
In Table I., will be found the estimated population,
inhabited houses, and the births, deaths, and marriages, which
have occurred in the district during the year 1879, and the
ten previous years.
In Table II., the annual rate of mortality, death rates
amongst children, and death rates at the public institutions.
In Table III, the deaths registered at several groups of
ages from different causes during the year.
In Table IV., the mortality from certain classes of
diseases, and proportions to population, and to 1,000 deaths
in 1879.
In Table V., the number of deaths in the 10 years 1869
to 1878 inclusive, from the seven principal zymotic diseases,
and the number in 1879.
In Table VI., the Inspectors' Report of sanitary work
done during the year.
In Table VII., the number of inhabited houses, the
estimated population, 1879, with the birth and death rate in
the Registrar's Sub-districts in Lewisham Parish and the
Hamlet of Penge, together comprising "the Lewisham
District."