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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of Westminster 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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| Ages at Death. | Total. | Conduit. | Grosvenor. | Hamlet of Knightsbridge. | Knightsbridge St. George. | Victoria. | St. Margaret. | St. John. | St. Anne. | Great Marlborough. | Pall Mall. | Regent. | Charing Cross. | Covent Garden. | Strand. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | ||
| Under 1 year of age | 36 | — | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Over 65 years | 43 | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
Infant mortality in London was equal to 157 deaths per 1,000 births registered, in
Westminster the rate was 162 per 1,000.
(e) 9 deaths were due to violence—5 of them were ascribed to negligence or
accident—and 4 to suicide. Inquests were held on the bodies of 19 citizens.
3. Notifiable Diseases.—55 cases of Infectious Disease were notified in the City in October, as compared with 66 in the previous five weeks. They were distributed as follows:—
| Notifiable Diseases. | Total. | Conduit. | Grosvenor. | Hamlet of Knightsbridge. | Knightsbridge St. George. | Victoria. | St. Margaret. | St. John. | St. Anne. | Great Marlborough. | Pall Mali | Regent. | Charing Cross. | Covent Garden. | Strand. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | ||
| Small-pox | 5 | — | 2 | — | —- | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 16 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 7 | 1 | 3 | — | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | —- |
| Diphtheria | 17 | — | — | — | — | 3 | 1 | 6 | — | 1 | — | 6 | — | — | — |
| Enteric Fever | 3 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| Erysipelas | 14 | — | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — |
| Puerperal Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Continued ,, | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pulmonary Phthisis | 13 | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
3 of the Small-pox cases, all of the Scarlet Fever, all the Diphtheria, all the Enteric,
and 3 of the Erysipelas cases were removed to Hospital.