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Annual Report on the Health and Sanitary
Condition of the City of Westminster,
1904.
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 1904.
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.
For London as a whole the year 1904 was not quite so favourable to
life as 1903, when the death-rate was the lowest on record, but it was
still below the average. In the City of Westminster the death-rates
of the two years were almost identical. When allowance is made for
the sex and age of the population, it appears that the City has been
improving in each of the last four years. The table subjoined gives
the death-rates for Metropolitan cities and boroughs, corrected by
multiplying the rate calculated from the number of deaths in each case
by a factor which tends to reduce the rates to a condition in which
they are comparable one with another.