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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: TABLE I.Shewing the Population, Inhabitd Houses Marriages, Births, and Deaths, for the Year 1888, and 10 years preceding.

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 DeathsDeaths in Public institutions.
Total All Ages.Under One Year.Under five Years.
58,600.8,012.4202,084.1,441.431.712.315.
18878,0124202,0641,450363626340
18868,0124002,0161,470360C50240
18858,0124082,1241,400345625376
18848,0124402,2021,360306584240
18838,0124042,1531,478367687247
18828,0124682,2751,460352603237
18818,0124682,1761,428322505253 j
18808,0124842,2101,540371732250
18797,8205042,2801,5543007112501
18787,8205442,2401,484372667255
Average of 10 yrs. 1878-87.7,9734632,1741,473354657272