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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

Strand (Westminster) 1894

Thirty-ninth annual report on the sanitary condition of the Strand District, London, 1894

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THE STRAND DISTRICT, LONDON.

Table: Table shewing the Number of Births (Male and Female) occurring in the Strand District, and each of its three Registration Sub-Districts, in the Fifty-two Weeks of the Year ending December 29th, 1891.

Table shewing the Number of Births (Male and Female) occurring in the Strand District, and each of its three Registration Sub-Districts, in the Fifty-two Weeks of the Year ending December 29th, 1891.

Male.Female.Total.Rate per 1,000 of Population in 1894.Rate per 1,000 of Population in 1893.
1. St. Anne14314528823.9227.05
2. St. Mary724611820.7418.92
3. St. Clement896115021.1223.09
30425255622.4024.05

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Deaths.
The total number of deaths, after correction,* which
were registered as properly belonging to this District,
during the year was 493, as compared with 671 recorded
during the preceding year. Upon the basis of the
estimated population already referred to, this is
equivalent to an annual death-rate of 19.86 per thousand
residents throughout the District, as compared with
17.4 per thousand, the corresponding number for the
whole Metropolis during the year. Both these rates
are much below the average of previous years, that for
London having only once approached so low a rate (18.0
in 1889). The death rates in the four quarters were as
follows:—
1st Quarter. 2nd Quarter. 3rd Quarter. 4th Quarter.
London 21.2 17.4 15.9 16.6
Strand 28.0 17.5 15.8 17.9
In Tables I. to V. in the Appendix are set forth
*The correction above referred to consists in omitting all deaths which took
place in hospitals and kindred institutions within this district of persons not
properly belonging to it; and, on the other hand, of including every death of such
of its inhabitants as has occurred in hospitals, infirmaries, lunatic asylums, &c.
throughout the Metropolis generally, and also those of paupers belonging to the
several parishes of which the district is constituted, which have happened in the
workhouses of the Strand and Westminster Unions respectively.