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6 in 1898. The number of deaths from scarlet fever were
the same as in the previous year, namely 9. There was one
death from small-pox. This is the only death registered
from that disease in the District since 1893.
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 59 persons to each
house, Hamlet of Penge 20,375, occupying 3,326 houses,
giving an average of 6 1 persons to each house.
At Midsummer, 1898, there were in Lewisham Parish
16,510 occupied houses, estimated to contain 97,409 persons,
and in the Hamlet of Penge 3,579 occupied houses, estimated
to contain 21,832 persons. Total, 20,089 occupied houses,
and estimated population 119,230, being an increase of over
7,000 in the year.
Inhabited Houses. Estimated
Populaton.
Lee 1,224 7,221
Lewisham 8,094 47,755
Sydenham 7,192 42,433
Penge 3,579 21,832
Births.
The registered births in the District in the year 1898
amounted to 2,773, an increase of 85 on the previous year;
of these 76, or 27 per cent., were illegitimate.
Birth rate=23.3 per 1000.
The birth rate in England and Wales in 1898 was 294
per 1,000 of the population, which is lower than that in any
other year on record, and is 1.1 per 1,000 below the mean
rate in the ten years, 1888—1897.