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Lewisham 1886

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]

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TABLE II.
Shewing the Annual Birth Rate, Rate of Mortality, Death
Rates among Children, and Deaths in Public Institutions,
for the year 1886, and 10 years preceding.
Birth rate per 1,000
of the Population.
Annual Rate of
Mortality per 1,000
living.
Deaths of Children
under 1 year: per
centage of Total
Deaths.
Per centage of Deaths
of Children under 1
year to registered
Births.
Deaths of Children
under & year: per
centage of Total
Deaths.
Total number at
Deaths in Public
institutions.
1886
34.4
25.0
24.4
17.8
44.2
249
1885
36.0
25.4
23.0
16.2
42.0
376
1884
37.0
23.3
22.4
13.9
42.5
249
1883
38.0
25.0
25.0
16.5
46.4
247
1882
38.8
25.0
24.0
15.0
47.0
237
1881
37.0
24.3
23.2
14.8
41.7
258
1880
38.0
26.2
24.0
17.0
47.5
250
1879
36.0
25.9
25.0
17.0
45.7
250
1878
35.0
24.7
25.0
16.0
45.0
255
1877
37.0
25.0
24.0
16.0
45.0
269
1876
37.0
24.5
29.0
17.0
53.0
250
Average
of 10 yrs.
1876-85.
36.98
24.93
24.46
15.94
45.58
289.0