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 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

4
Without a direct census it is impossible to ascertain the correct
figures. The Registrar.General, for the purpose of the Equalisation of
Rates Act, estimated the population of the City in another way and
makes it to be 172,085, without paupers in outlying workhouses and
infirmaries. This he does by calculating the number of persons per
inhabited house at the time of the census, and applying such to the
number of houses found on the rate books in May of each year. The
City Comptroller has been good enough to supply me with a copy of the
figures sent to the Local Government Board in 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905,
and 1906, and I append them so that comparisons may be made:-

Table: The City Comptroller has been good enough to supply me with a copy of the figures sent to the Local Government Board in 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, and 1906, and I append them so that comparisons may be made:-

The City Comptroller has been good enough to supply me with a copy of the figures sent to the Local Government Board in 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, and 1906, and I append them so that comparisons may be made:-

123456
Number of Houses as defined in Local Government Board Schedule.Number of Houses comprising two or more Rateable Properties.Number of Separate Occupations included in Col. 2.Actual Number of Rated Occupiers.Estimated Population Equalisation of Rates Act.Estimated Population Registrar. General's Methods.
1902. St. George Hanover Square9,838562,23612,01875,92376,424
St Margaret and St. John5,638543,9749,55850,69052,791
St. James2,8827842,95921,29421,060
St. Anne1,135458271,91711,16811,414
St. Martin and Strand2,708691,8054,44419,45920,200
The City22,2012318,92630,896178,489181,889
1903. St. George Hanover Square9,848562,25312,04576,00075,715
St. Margaret and St. John5,474594,3479,76249,21352,284
St. James2,85492023,04721,04220,094
St. Anne1,135458271,91711,16811,304
St. Martin and Strand2,523691,8334,28718,28219,827
The City21,8342389,46231,058175,705179,224
1904. St. George Hanover Square9,822592,31812,08175,79975,440
St. Margaret and St. John5,420604.5459,90548,72751,960
St. James2,82292193,03220,80619,730
1,128458291,91211,09911,250
St. Martin and Strand2,460641,8354,13117,84019,560
The City21,6522379,74631,061174,271177,940