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from that as estimated according to calculation from the
number of inhabited houses and the average number of
inmates per house. How this difference occurred is explained
in the note at the end of Table vii.
Population.
The population of the Lewisham District, is estimated
by the Census at the middle of the year 1891, amounted to
92,647, occupying 15,643 houses.
Births.
The registered births in the District in the year 1891
amounted to 2,521. This number is 202 in advance of last
year, and a considerable increase on that of any previous
year, Of the births 67, or 2.0 per cent., were illegitimate.
Males 1,319
Females1,202
The birth rate to population was 27.2 per 1,000.
In London it was 31.8 per 1,000, an increase of 2.7 on
the previous year, when it fell to the lowest on record.
The birth rate in England and Wales during the year
was 31.4 per 1,000, a rate of 1.2 per 1,000 higher than that
in 1890 (which was the lowest on record), and just equal to
the mean rate in the five years 1880-90.
Deaths.
The number of deaths registered in the Lewisham
District for the year 1891 was 1,355, being 35 more than
the number registered during the previous year.
Males 650
Females 705