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TO THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL
of the
City of Westminster.
Mr. Mayor, My Lords and Gentlemen,
I submit my Annual Report for the year 1900, upon the
Public Health of that portion of the City of Westminster
which has been known hitherto as the Parish of St
James's.
This is the twenty-seventh Annual Report which I
have had the honour to prepare. Eighteen Annual
Reports had previously been prepared by Dr. Edwin
Lankester, F.R.S.— my predecessor in this office. This
therefore is the forty-fifth Annual Health Report for the
District of St, James's, and it brings its data p to he end
of the nineteenth century.
Under the London Government Act, 1899, St. James's
Parish, as a Local Authority, has merged in the new
and great City of Westminster, This forty-fifth Annual
Report therefore closes the series of Health Reports
issued for St. James's as a separate area. The new City
of Westminster has been dowered with an ancient and
illustrious name, and its Municipal Council is charged with
the administration of the local affairs of a community
which, at the census of 1896, numbered 193,456 persons,
and with the regulation of property already having an
annual rateable value of £5,386,182 sterling. May the