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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Lewisham 1879

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]

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Table: TABLE I.Population, Inhabited Houses, Births, Deaths, andMarriage*.(GROSS NUMBERS).

TABLE I.

Population, Inhabited Houses, Births, Deaths, andMarriage*.

(GROSS NUMBERS).

Population Estimated at the middle of the Year 1879.*No. of Inhabited Houses in Parish or District.Births.Deaths.Marriages.
187067084109082106963520
1878635531033421211058385
18776118599491982911437
18766023997951957984419
18755811194491878953376
18745600291061752842343
18735146288561779791329
18725308581741693788
18715002276141574815
18704742272701568806
18694733871771555756
Average of 10 years, 1869—1878......1785.9870.4

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NOTES.
1. Population according to Census, 1871, 49727.
2. Area in acres, 6544.
3. Average Number of Persons in each house according to Census 1871, 6. 15.
* For statistical purposes the Registrar-General estimates the population to
the middle of each year, taking as the basis the rate of increase ruling between
the two preceding Census periods. The estimate of population here is calculated
from the known number of inhabited houses at the middle of the year, and the
average number of inmates per house, as ascertained by the preceding Census of