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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
City of Westminster 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Of the total deaths, 214 were those of children under 1 year of age, and 654 of persons over 65 years of age; these are referable to the various wards as follows:—
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The deaths of young children and of old persons were considerably
less than in the previous year.
Infantile Mortality.—The uncorrected rate for the City was 102
deaths per 1,000 births registered in the City, as compared with 133,
the average of the previous ten years. The corrected rate was
82, the average of the years 1901-9 being 112. On deducting the
births and deaths of illegitimate children, it will be seen below that
the infant death-rate has fallen regularly from 125 to 78 per 1,000.
The London rate for 1910 was 103, the average for the five years
1905-09 being 120. The infantile death-rate in England and Wales
was 106, being 3 below the rate in 1910 and 26 below the ten yearly
averages. Table VII, required by the Local Government Board, shows
in detail the ages and causes of death of children under 1 year of age.
I have also set out in Table VII, A and 13, the figures in Victoria
Ward and St. Margaret and St. John. The births and deaths apportioned
to these divisions are shown below:—