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Annual Report on the Health and Sanitary
Condition of the City of Westminster*
1903
To the
Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors
of the City of Westminster.
My Lord 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 1903.
It is drawn up in accordance with the instructions of the Local
Government Board, and contains a record of the work of the Department.
Returns required by the Local Government Board, and particulars
relating to Factories and Workshops required by the Home
Office, are incorporated.
The year 1903 was remarkable in the exceptionally heavy rainfall
which occurred over a large part of England, but especially in the
Thames Valley. At the London Eeporting Station of the Meteorological
Office, situated at Brixton, the rainfall for the year was
37'95 inches, the average being 24'38 inches. The eight years previous
to 1903 all had the rainfall below the average, the aggregate deficiency
being 26 inches, while in the twenty years 1883 to 1902 there were
only four years with an excess, the total deficiency being 14 inches.
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