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Conduit Ward 5,800
Grosvenor Ward 15,170
Hamlet of Knights-
bridge 7,631
Knightsbridge St.
George 15,300
Victoria Ward 40,154
St. Margaret 13,560
St. John 31,600
Great Marlborough
Ward 7,420
Pall Mall Ward 4,010
Regent Ward 9,630
Charing Cross Ward 4,430
Covent Garden
Ward 8,950
Strand Ward 6,820
St. Anne Ward 11,414
This gives a total of 181,890, which is slightly higher than the
figure adopted as the population of the City, but the difference in the
rates calculated thereon is so slight as to be negligible, whereas the
Ward rates approach more nearly to correctness.
As regards infectious diseases, the whole population with paupers
should be included as notifications are receivable from outlying institutions,
even if the infection has been contracted there, as well as in
respect of visitors resident in hotels in the city.
Births.
As there are fifty-three weeks in the Registration year allowance
has to be made for this by the addition of an equivalent population.
3,284 births were registered in the City in the 53 weeks ending
January 3rd, 1903. On examination, 28 births were found to be
referable to other districts. Through the courtesy of the Committees of
Management of Endell Street, York Road, and the Queen Charlotte
Lying-in Institutions, and of the Master of the Strand Workhouse at
Edmonton, and the Steward of St. George's Workhouse, Fulham Road, I
have ascertained that in these institutions 205 children were born, the
home address of whose mothers was in Westminster. The net number of
births was, therefore, 3,461; the birth-rate, uncorrected, was 17.8,
corrected 18.7 per thousand persons. The birth-rate for the County of
London for 1902 was 28.4, and was lower than that in any of the ten
preceding years, during which the birth-rate averaged 30T per
thousand. The birth-rate in England and Wales was 28.6, which is 0.1
per thousand higher than the rate in 1901, but lower than that in any
other year on record; compared with the average of the preceding ten
years the birth-rate in 1902 shows a decrease of 1 per thousand.
The uncorrected birth-rates were lowest in the City of London, 13.1;
the City of Westminster, 17.8; Hampstead, 18.2; and Kensington, 19.3;
and highest in Stepney, 38.0.
Consequent upon differences in sex and age distribution, and the
proportion of married and unmarried persons in the various Wards of