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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 1888
[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, 1888.*
No. of
Inhabited
Houses in
Parish or
District.
Births.
Deaths.
Marriages.
1888
88845
14188
2287
1226
510
1887
86423
13800
2354
1191
566
1886
85300
13613
2324
1150
473
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
Average of
10 years,
1878—1887
77553
12113
2262
1087
492
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 Census periods. The estimation 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 at 6.15,
and in Penge at 6.65.