Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]
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1871 to 1880 inclusive, from the seven principal zymotic
diseases, and the number in 1881.
Table VI. gives the Inspectors' Reports of the sanitary
work completed during the year.
Table VII. gives the number of inhabited houses, the
estimated population in 1881, with the birth and death rate
in the Registrar's Sub-districts in the Lewisham Parish, and
the Hamlet of Penge, together comprising "the Lewisham
District."
Table VIII. gives the area, the census population in the
years 1861 and 1871, the estimated population in 1881, and
the mortality in various Metropolitan Districts, and in
England and Wales.
Table IX. gives the population, the number of persons
to an acre of ground, the number of births and deaths, the
annual birth and death rates, the mean temperature and
rainfall in London and 22 large towns of the United Kingdom,
and of the Lewisham District.
Table X. The number of children between the ages of
3 and 13 years attending public elementary and certified
efficient schools in the Parish of Lewisham and in the
Hamlet of Penge during the year 1881.
Table XI. A Register of the licensed cow-houses in the
District, together with a list of the milk sellers in the District
who have no licenses.
Table XII. A list of the licensed slaughter-houses in
the District.
Marriages.
During in the year 1881, 386 Marriages took place in the
Lewisham Parish, of which 306 were solemnized in the