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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 1889
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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TABLE I.
Table showing the Population, Inhabited Houses, Marriages, Births, and
Deaths, for the Year 1889, and 10 years preceding.
Population
estimated at the
middle of the year
1889.
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.
60,000
8,012
411
2,109
1,363
336
582
467
1888
...
420
2,804
1,441
431
712
315
1887
...
420
2,064
1,450
363
626
349
1886
...
400
2,016
1,470
360
650
219
1885
...
408
2,124
1,490
345
625
376
1884
...
449
2,202
1,369
306
584
219
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
...
504
2,286
1,484
390
711
250
Average
of l0 yre.
1879-88.
...
451
2,159
1,461
360
661
278
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