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ANNUAL REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION OF THE PARISHES
of
St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster,
Ending December, 1893,
By BARNARD HOLT, F.R.C.S.,
Medical Officer of Health.
To the Members of the United Vestry.
Gentlemen,
Following my usual custom I shall commence with recording
the number of births and deaths that have occurred during
the year, and afterwards place before you various interesting
details and an account of the work and sanitary improvements
that have been effected during the past twelve months.
The number of births registered in the parish during the year
has been 687 males, and 663 females, or a total of 1,350 births;
while the deaths have numbered 580 males, and 474 females, or
a total of 1,054 deaths. From these, however, must be deducted
293 as the result of accident, or occurring in persons not belonging
to the parish, which reduces the actual number to 761. At
the same time, to this 761 must be added 484 deaths of
parishioners occurring in extra-parochial institutions, so that
during the past year 1,245 deaths of inhabitants of the united
parishes have been recorded. The deaths during 1892 were
1,095, but a comparison is impossible, as this method of excluding
strangers dying in the parish, and including parishioners dying
out of it, has not hitherto been adopted.
The following deaths occurred at the undermentioned ages,
viz.:—
Above sixty, 159; above seventy, 149; above eighty, 57;
above ninety, 7.