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Lewisham 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]
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TABLE VIII.
The number of Inhabited Houses, the Estimated Population,
1898, uitli the Birth and Death Rate in the different Registrars'
Sub-districts in Lewisham Parish and the Hamlet of
Penge, together comprising " The Lewisham District."
Registrars' Sub-districts.
Number
of Inhabited
Houses,
Midsummer,
1898.
Estimated
Population,
1898.
Number
of
Births,
1898.
Birth
Rate
per
1000.
1898.
Number
of
Deaths
1898.
Death
Rate
per
1000.
1898.
Blackheath, the part of
Lewisham Parish in the
Sub-district of Lee
1224
7221
116
16.0
126
17 4
Lewisham, the part of
Lewisham Parish in the
Sub-district of Lewisham
Village
8094
47755
1214
26.0
762
15.9
Sydenham Chapelky
7192
42433
971
22.8
491
11.5
Parish or Lewisham
16510
97409
2331
23.9
1379
14.0
Hamlet of Penge
3579
21831
442
20.2
291
13.3
The Lewisham District
20089
119240
2773
23.2
1670
14.0