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Annual Report on the Health and Sanitary
Condition of the City of Westminster.
1901.
To the
Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors
of the City of Westminster.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my first Annual Report on
the Health and Sanitary Condition of the City of Westminster during
the year 1901.
As the date of my taking office began at the end of the first three
months, I am only required to report on what has transpired during
the remaining nine months, but iu order that statistics may be
comparable in future years, my predecessors (Professor Corfield,
Dr. Edmunds, Dr. Skegg, and Dr. Norton) have supplied me with
the Registrar's weekly returns for the parts of the City for which
they were responsible, and I am therefore able to submit figures for
the 52 weeks ending December 28th. This, together with the extra
work entailed by smallpox, and waiting for the report of the census
as afiecting the City, has delayed the issue of the Report.
It is fortunate that the census was taken at an early date after
the incorporation of the City, as the alteration of area in many parts
of the City would have rendered comparison of birth and death rates
impossible. I have considered somewhat fully the facts brought out
by the census in relation to the various Wards, and have prepared
tables summarising information given by the Registrar-General with
reference to them, certain of these are included herewith.
The meteorological conditions during 1901, as in the preceding
year, proved favourable to health. 1901 was the seventh year hi
succession in which the total rainfall has been below the average;
the driest month of the year was November, and the wettest
(8545; A