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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 1885
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]
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TABLE I.
Population, Inhabited Houses, Births, Deaths, and Marriages.
(gross numbers).
Population Estimated at
Midsummer, 1885.*
No. of
Inhabited
Houses in
Parish or
District.
Births.
Deaths.
Marriages.
1885
82000
13090
2451
1128
531
1884
79730
12716
2316
1110
503
1883
77572
12361
2340
1052
504
1882
74901
11941
2286
1092
511
1881
71508
11400
2199
1076
500
1880
67465
10970
2127
1054
434
1879
67084
10908
2106
963
520
1878
63553
10334
2121
1058
385
1877
61185
9949
1982
911
437
1876
60239
9795
1957
984
419
1875
58111
9449
1878
953
376
Average of 10 years,
1875—1884
......
2131
1025
458
notes.
1. Population according to Census, 1881, 71,715.
2. Area in acres, 6544.
* For statistical purposes the Registrar-General estimates the population to
the middle of each year, taking as a 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, which is estimated in Lewisham &t 6.15,
and in Penge at 6.65.