London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of Westminster 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
This page requires JavaScript
Table V.—City of Westminster— Statistics of Births and Deaths during the 52 Weeks ending 30 th December, 1905.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wards. | Population Estimated to Middle of the Year 1905. | Births (Corrected). | Deaths Under One Year of Age. | Deaths at all Ages. Total. | Deaths of Citizens in Public Institutions. | Deaths of Non-Residents Registered in District. | Deaths of Residents Registered beyond District. | Deaths at all Ages. Nett. | |||
| Number. | Rate.1 | Number. | Rate per 1,000 Births (Corrected). | Number. | Rate.* | ||||||
| Conduit | 5,600 | 30 | 5.3 | 6 | 200 | 32 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 35 | 6.2 |
| Grosvenor | 14,900 | 133 | 8.9 | 10 | 75 | 83 | 49 | 12 | 53 | 124 | 8.2 |
| Knightsbridge St. George | 14,800 | 160 | 10.8 | 5 | 31 | 456 | 37 | 376 | 30 | 110 | 7.4 |
| Victoria | 39,500 | 890 | 22.5 | 94 | 105 | 371 | 248 | 24 | 252 | 599 | 15.1 |
| St. Margaret | 13,200 | 156 | 11.8 | 14 | 89 | 308 | 59 | 221 | 56 | 143 | 10.8 |
| St. John | 30,500 | 908 | 29.7 | 118 | 129 | 364 | 305 | 32 | 309 | 641 | 21.0 |
| Hamlet of Knightsbridge | 7,560 | 67 | 8.8 | 6 | 99 | 49 | 17 | 3 | 27 | 73 | 9.6 |
| Pall Mall | 3,000 | 20 | 6.6 | 2 | 100 | 26 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 29 | 9.6 |
| Regent | 9,400 | 163 | 17.3 | 14 | 85 | 67 | 59 | 16 | 63 | 114 | 12.1 |
| Great Marlborough | 7,000 | 149 | 21.2 | 13 | 87 | 82 | 45 | 34 | 38 | 86 | 12.3 |
| Charing Cross | 4,250 | 38 | 8.9 | 4 | 105 | 37 | 25 | 16 | 25 | 46 | 10.8 |
| Covent Garden | 8,500 | 147 | 17.2 | 22 | . 149 | 315 | 86 | 252 | 77 | 140 | 16.4 |
| Strand | 6,400 | 17 | 2.6 | — | — | 247 | 71 | 226 | 62 | 83 | 12.9 |
| St. Anne | 11,000 | 242 | 22.0 | 21 | 86 | 108 | 59 | 47 | 63 | 124 | 11.2 |
| The City | 175,606 | 3,120 | 17.7 | 329 | 105 | 2,545 | 1,082 | 1,035 | 837 | 2,347 | 13.3 |
* Rates calculated per 1,000 of estimated population.
The uncorrected birth-rate was 16.7, the uncorrected death-rate, 14.4.
Note.—The deaths included in Column 7 of this table are the whole of those registered as haying actually occurred within the ward. The deaths
included in Column 11 are the number in Column 7 corrected by the subtraction of the number in Column 9 and the addition of the number in
Column 10.