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much more fatal last year than in the preceding year : 61
deaths occurring from Influenza in 1895, against 29 in 1894,
58 in 1893, and 74 in 1892.
Population.
The population of the Lewisham District, at the Census
of 1891, was found to be 92,647, occupying 15,643 houses,
distributed thus — Lewisham Parish, 72,272, occupying
12,317 houses, giving an average of 5.9 persons to each
house ; and Hamlet of Penge 20,375, occupying 3,326 houses,
giving an average of 6.1 persons to each house.
At Midsummer, 1895, there were in Lewisham 13,991
occupied houses, estimated to contain 82,547 persons, and in
Pei:ge 3,443 occupied houses, estimated to contain 21,002
persons. Total, 17,434 occupied houses, and estimated population
103,549, an increase of nearly 11,000 in the last five
years, nearly 10,000 having been added to the population
of the Lewisham Parish, and less than 1,000 to the Ilamlet
of Penge.
Births.
The registered births in the District in the year 1895
amounted to 2,535, or 105 more than in the previous year ;
of these 65, or 2*5 per cent., were illegitimate.
Males 1,324
Females 1,211
The birth rate to population was 24.5 per 1,000.
In England and Wales it was 30.3 per 1,000 of the
population, which, although higher than the low rates in
1890 and 1894, is lower than any other rate on record, and
0'9 per 1,000 below the average rate for the previous ten
years. The birth rate in London, 30 0 per 1000, was the
lowest yet recorded.
Deaths.
The total number of deaths for 1895 was 1,496, as
compared with 1,404 in the previous year.
Males 707
Females 789