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Limehouse 1882
[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 1882, and 10 years preceding.
GROSS NUMBERS.
Population
estimated at
the middle
of the year
1882.
No. of
Inhabited
Houses in
Parish or
District.
Births.
Deaths.
Marriages.
58,600.
8,012.
2,275.
1,469.
468.
1881
8,012
2,176
1,428
468
1880
8,012
2,210
1,540
484
1879
7,820
2,286
1,554
504
1878
7,820
22,40
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
Average of 10
yrs. 1872—81
7.857.6
2,162.7
1,441.1
548.1
NOTES.
1. Population at Census 1881, 58,543.
2. Area in Acres, 576.
3. Average No. of Persons in each house at Census 1881, 7.3.