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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
Vestry Hall,
Hampstead, N.W.,
4th July, 1896.
To the Vestry of the Parish of St. John, Hampstead.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to lay before you my Annual
Report upon the vital statistics of the Parish of Hampstead
for the registration year, 1895. The ordinary sanitary
statistics will, as before, be compiled for the parochial year,
which terminated on the 25th March, 1896.
The first quinquennial census of the whole of London was
taken on the 29th of March, 1896, when our numbers were
found to bo 75,449. This is equivalent to an annual increase
of 1400 persons for the last five years.
For the purposes of this report it is necessary, by the
directions of the Local Government Board, to estimate ou
population to the middle of 1895, which may therefore be
taken to be, at that period, 74,399.
During 1895 193 now houses came into occupation, of
which 138 were situated in the Kilburn and SVest End
Wards, against 55 in the Town and Belsize Wards.