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Table I. gives the estimate 1 population, the number of
inhabited houses, and the births, deaths, and marriages which
have taken place in the District during the year 1885 and
the 10 previous years.
Table II. gives the annual rate of mortality, death rates
amongst children, and death rates at the public institutions
in the District for the same periods.
Table III. gives the deaths registered at several groups
of ages from different causes during the year.
Table IV. gives the mortality from certain classes of
diseases, and the proportion to population, and to 1,000
deaths in 1885.
Table V. gives the number of deaths in the 10 years,
1875 to 1884 inclusive, from the seven principal zymotic
diseases, and the number in the year 1885.
Table VI. The Inspectors' Reports of the sanitary work
completed during the year.
Table VII. gives the number of inhabited houses, the
estimated population in 1885, 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. A Register of the licensed cow-houses in
the District, together with a list of the milk sellers in the
District who have no licensed cow-houses.
Table IX. A list of the licensed slaughter-houses in
the District.
The decrease in the death rate from zymotic diseases
may be attributed to the diminished fatality ot whooping
cough and measles, and the entire absence of any deaths irom