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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lewisham 1886
[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 1886, and 10 years preceding.
Population
estimated at
the middle
of the year
1886.
Approximate
No. of Inhabited
Houses in
District.
Births.
Deaths.
Marriages.
58,600.
8,012.
2,016.
1,470.
400.
1885
8,012
2,124
1,490
408
1884
8,012
2,202
1,369
449
1883
8,012
2,153
1,478
494
1882
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
2,240
1,484
544
1877
7,820
2,146
1,513
527
1876
7,820
2,167
1,518
593
Average of 10
yrs. 1876—85
7,935
2,197
1,484
493
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.