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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 1888
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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TABLE I.
Shewing the Population, Inhabitd Houses Marriages, Births, and Deaths,
for the Year 1888, and 10 years preceding.
Population
estimated at the
middle of the year
1888.
Estimated No.
of Inhabited
Houses.
Marriages.
Registered
Births.
Corrected No. of Deaths
Deaths in
Public
institutions.
Total
All Ages.
Under
One Year.
Under
five Years.
58,600.
8,012.
420
2,084.
1,441.
431.
712.
315.
1887
8,012
420
2,064
1,450
363
626
340
1886
8,012
400
2,016
1,470
360
C50
240
1885
8,012
408
2,124
1,400
345
625
376
1884
8,012
440
2,202
1,360
306
584
240
1883
8,012
404
2,153
1,478
367
687
247
1882
8,012
468
2,275
1,460
352
603
237
1881
8,012
468
2,176
1,428
322
505
253 j
1880
8,012
484
2,210
1,540
371
732
250
1879
7,820
504
2,280
1,554
300
711
2501
1878
7,820
544
2,240
1,484
372
667
255
Average
of 10 yrs.
1878-87.
7,973
463
2,174
1,473
354
657
272
NOTES.
1. Popoulation at Census, 1881, 58,543.
2. Average No. Persons in each house at Census 1881,7.3.
3. Area in Acres, 570.