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Vital Statistics for the Year, 1880.
In commencing this division of my Report it will be advantageous if the principal
features of Rotherhithe are compared with those of the whole Metropolis mentioned in
the Registrar General's 1880 abstract. Let us first take
ROTHERHITHE.
Area.— Our area, including Thames foreshore and the Docks, equals 886 acres,
or 1.38 square miles or 358 hectares, but of these 753 only, or 1.17 square mile or 304
hectares, are available for dwelling purposes, and 68 of them (known as Southwark
Park) are attached to one house, so that really, barely 685 acres are occupied by the
residents.
The length of the streets and roads is 13.9 miles, and their area nearly 1 square
mile. The area of the City of London being 1.38 square miles, ours is equal to a square
of .3714 miles on each side. The Sewers have a length of about 19.3 miles.
Elevation.—Our mean elevation is about 5 feet (2.7 metres) below Trinity high
water mark.
Houses.—There are within this area 5675 inhabited houses containing an average
of 6.3 persons in each, whilst the proportion in 1861 (the year of the last census)
was 6.8. per house then built.
Annual Rateable Value.—The annual rateable value of property in Rotherhithe
in April, 1881, was £195,202.
Density (1880) 101.7 persons to a hectare: 40.4 persons to an hectare: 26,394
persons to a square mile.
Annual Rate of Increase of Population per cent. 1870-80=2.108.
4880.
Population in 1880, estimated to middle of year 36425.0
Births in 1880 1391
Annual Birth Rate per 1000 41.6
Marriages in 1880 241
Annual Marriage Rate per 1000 7.9
Deaths in 1880 759
Annual Death Rate per 1000 22.1
Corrected „ „ 17.1
Excess of Births over Deaths 632.0
Increase of Population 2653