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Lewisham 1876
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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to the
BOARD OF WORKS
for the
LIMEHOUSE DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my Report on
the Sanitary condition of your District during the year 1876.
In that period there were registered in the District 2,197 Births
and 1,266 Deaths. From this number of Deaths there must be
deducted 28—the number of deaths of non-residents in the
District, which occurred in the East London Hospital for Children—
and to the remainder (1,230) must be added 204, the number of
deaths of residents in the District which occurred in Institutions
outside it. We therefore obtain a total of 1,434 deaths as representing
the mortality in the Limehouse District during the year.
The following Table shows the population, the number of
inhabited houses, and the number of births, deaths, and marriages