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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 1887
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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TABLE I.
Shewing the Population, Inhabited Houses, Marriages, Births,
and Deaths, for the Year 1887, and 10 years preceding.
■ GROSS NUMBERS.
Population
at
the middle
of the yaer
1887
Estimated
No of
Inhabited
Houses.
Marriages.
Registered
Births.
Corrected No. of Deaths.
Death.
in Public
Institutions.
Total
All Ages.
I'mler
On® Year.
Umlrr
Five Years.
58,600.
8,012.
420.
2,064.
1,450.
363.
626.
349.
1886
8,012
400
2,016
1,470
360
650
249
1885
"
408
2,124
1,490
345
625
376
1884
"
449
2,202
1,369
306
584
249
1883
"
494
2,153
1,478
367
687
247
1882
"
468
2,275
1,469
352
693
237
1881
"
468
2,176
1,428
322
595
258
1880
"
484
2,210
1,540
371
732
250
1879
7,820
504
2,286
1,554
390
711
250
1878
"
544
2,240
1,484
372
667
255
1877
"
527
2,146
1,513
356
683
269
Average
of 10 yrs.
1877 86
7,954
474
2,182
1,479
354
662
264
NOTES.
1. Population at Census, 1881, 58,543.
2. Average No. of Persons in each house at Census 1881, 7.3.
3. Area of District in acres, 576.