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Annual Report on the Health and Sanitary
Condition of the City of Westminster.
1902.
To the
Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors
of the City of Westminster.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my Annual Report on the
Health and Sanitary Condition of the City of Westminster during the
year 1902.
It is drawn up in accordance with the instructions of the Local
Government Board, and contains a record of the work of the Department,
as carried out under the Public Health Committee. The Special
Report on the Small-pox outbreak, required by the Local Government
Board, and the Report on the Factories and Workshops, required by the
Home Office, are incorporated.
Notwithstanding the great concourse of people who came to Westminster
during the Coronation year, I am glad to say there was no
deterioration in the general health or increase in the death-rate.
The year 1902 was chiefly remarkable, from a health point of view,
for the existence of two epidemic diseases, small-pox and typhoid fever.
Small-pox came as an inheritance from the previous year, and assumed
a greater prevalence than had been known for many years, and was due
to the neglect of vaccination which had steadily increased during recent
years. It should be clearly understood that the increase in the rates,
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