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Lewisham 1888

[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 1888, and 10 years preceding.
In the year
Birth Rate per 1,000
of the Population.
Corrected Death Tate
Per 1,000 of the Population
Deaths of Children under
1 year . par 1 ,000 of
Registered Births.
Deaths of Children under
1 year. per l.000 of
Total Deaths
Deaths of Children under
5 years: per 1,000 of
Total Deaths
Deaths In Public
Iustitutions; per l.000 of
Total Death*.
1888
35.5
24.6
207.
299.
494.
218.
1887
35.0
24.7
176
250
431
240
1846
34.4
25.0
178
244
442
170
1885
36.0
25.4
162
230
420
252
1834
37.0
23.3
139
224
425
181
1883
38.0
25.0
165
250
464
160
1882
38.8
25.0
150
240
470
161
1881
37.0
24.3
148
232
417
180
1880
28.0
26.2
170
240
475
162
1879
36.0
25.9
170
250
457
160
1878
35.0
24.7
160
250
450
171
Average
of 10 yes.
1878-87.
36.5
24.9
161
241
445
184