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Limehouse 1879
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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TABLE I.
Shewing the Population, Inhabited Houses, Births, Deaths, and
Marriages, for the year 1879, and 10 years preceding.
GROSS NUMBERS.
Population
estimated at
the middle
of the year
1879,
No. of
Inhabited
Houses in
Parish or
District.
Births.
Deaths.
Marriages.
60,000.
7,820.
2,286.
1,554.
505.
1878
7,820
2,240
1,484
544
1877
7,820
2,146
1,513
527
1876
7,820
2,202
1,434
522
1875
7,820
2,167
1,518
593
1874
7,820
2,082
1,361
624
1873
7,816
2,070
1,483
606
1872
7,816
2,048
1,096
608
1871
7,816
2,082
1,227
579
1870
7,462
1,980
1,236
578
1869
7,462
2,055
1,335
554
Average of 10
yrs. 1869—78
7747.2
2107.2
1368.7
573.5
NOTES.
1. Population at Census 1871, 57,690.
2. Area in acres, 576.
3. Average No. of Persons in each house at Census 1871, 7.5.