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REPORT
to
The Road of Works for the Lewisham District
TO THE END OF THE YEAR 1888,
by
TO THE END OF THE YEAR 1888,
Medical Officer of Health for the District.
Gentlemen,
The population of the Lewisham District, as estimated
at the middle of the year 1888, amounted to 88,845, occupying
14,188 houses, as compared with 86,423 occupying
13,800 houses in the previous year. The population in 1881,
at the time of the census, was ascertained to be 71,715.
Births.
The Registered Births in the District in the year 1888
amounted to 2,287, of which 90, or 3.9 per cent., were illegitimate.
Males 1,153.
Females 1,134.
The Birth Rate to population was 24.61 per 1,000.
In London 131,080 births were registered, the Birth
Rate being 30.7 per 1,000.
The Birth rate in England and Wales was 30.6, and
showed a further decline of 0.8 from the unprecedentedly
low rate in 1887, and was 2.9 below the mean annual rate in
the ten years 1878-87.
Deaths.
The number of Deaths registered in the Lewisham
District during the year 1888 was 1,226, being 35 more than
the number registered during the previous year.