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Total 510, as compared with 566 in the previous year.
The marriage rate was equal to 11.4 per 1,000.
In London it was 16.1, the lowest yet recorded, though
it has been on the decrease every year since 1883.
For England and Wales it was 14.2.
Table I. gives the estimated population, the number of
inhabited houses, and the births, deaths, and marriages which
have taken place in the District during the year 1887 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 1887.
Table V. gives the number of deaths in the 10 years,
1877 to 1886 inclusive, from the seven principal zymotic
diseases, and the number in the year 1887.
Table VI. The Inspectors' Report of sanitary work
completed during the year.
Table VII. gives the number of inhabited houses, the
estimated population in 1887, with the birth and death rates
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.