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Annual Report on the Health and Sanitary
Condition of the City of Westminster.
1905.
To the
Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors
of the City of Westminster.
My Lord and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to vou my Annual Report on the
Health and Sanitary Condition of the City of Westminster during the
year 1905.
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 1905 was characterised by a low death-rate. In the City
of Westminster the death-rates show a continuous decline in each of
the last three years, As there is an increase in the number of births
recorded, it is highly probable that the population has increased rather
than declined during 1905 ; if this be so, then the death-rate would
work out at a lower figure still. It is particularly gratifying to be able
to show that the infantile death-rate has fallen during the year to 105
per 1,000 infants born, a reduction of 25 per cent. on the average of the
previous ten years. In London as a whole there has also been a
reduction in 1905 equal to 15 per cent., and a part of it was due to the