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Lewisham 1888
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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TO THE
BOARD OF WORKS
for tiie
LIMEHOUSE DISTEICT
Gentlemen,
1 have the honour to submit my Report on the Health
and Sanitary condition of the Limehouse District for the year 1888.
During that year there were registered in the District 420
Marriages, a number which corresponds exactly with that registered
in the previous year, but which falls short of the average of the ten
years 1878.87 by 43. The Marriage rate in the District was again
14 persons per 1,000 population, while in London it was 16.1 per
1,000, the lowest Marriage rate yet recorded in Loudon.
The Births registered in the District numbered 2,084, and
were 90 below the average of the last ten years. They corresponded
to an annual birth rate of 35.5 per 1,000, that of London having
been 30.7 per 1,000 population.