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whilst the annual rate of the whole of London for the
like periodwas 199 per 1000, and of Districts outside London
16.5.
Thus, notwithstanding the great increase in the District,
little alteration has taken place in the death rate;
last year it was 13.75.
The number of inhabited houses and the population of
the District continue to increase, as shewn by the Table in
the Medical Officer's Report The number in each case, at
Midsummer, 1886, being—
Inhabited houses— Lewisham 10,453
„ Penge 3,160
13,613
Estimated population— Lewisham 64,286
„ Penge 21,014
85,300
The Return (Table VI.), shows the number of complaints
brought under the notice of the Committees, and
the proceedings taken thereon. The Slaughter-houses, Cowhouses,
and Fishmongers' premises, have been periodically
inspected by the Board's Sanitary Officers.
In addition to these inspections, special house-to-house
inspections have been made under the Regulations adopted
by the Board as to houses let in lodgings, or occupied by
members of more than one family, and many sanitary improvements
have been effected in the houses which are not
specified in the Return referred to. On page 11 the Board
refer to these regulations.
Under this head the Beard have, in their previous
Reports, mentioned the subject of the collection and removal
of Dust and House Refuse, to which considerable time
and attention is devoted by the Board's Committees and their
Officers, as being a matter of great importance to the health
of the District.