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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of Westminster 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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| 1907. Wards. | Under 1 Year of Age. | Over 65 Years of Age. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Quarter. | 2nd Quarter. | 3rd Quarter | 4th Quarte. | The Year. | 1st Quarter. | 2nd Quarter. | 3rd Quarter. | 4th Quarter. | The Year. | ||
| Conduit | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | 5 | |
| Grosvenor | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 23 | 15 | 6 | 12 | 56 | |
| Hamlet of Knightsbridge | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 22 | |
| Knightsbridge St. George | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 16 | 13 | 8 | 12 | 49 | |
| Victoria | 22 | 9 | 22 | 74 | 62 | 42 | 33 | 63 | 200 | ||
| St. Margaret | 4 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 37 | ||
| St. John | 45 | 28 | 16 | 28 | 117 | 60 | 37 | 30 | 47 | 174 | |
| St. Anne | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 23 | |
| Great Marlborough | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 23 | |
| Pall Mall | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | |
| Regent | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 26 | |
| Charing Cross | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | l5 | |
| Covent Garden | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 40 | |
| Strand | 2 | — | — | — | 2 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 37 | |
| The City | 1907 | 106 | 74 | 49 | 74 | 303 | 246 | 159 | 133 | 180 | 718 |
| 1906 | 82 | 68 | 106 | 67 | 323 | 193 | 170 | 119 | 182 | 664 | |
The deaths of young children were less and those of old persons
more than in the previous year, the latter resulting from influenza and
chest affections.
Infantile Mortality.—The uncorrected rate for the City was 110
deaths per 1,000 births registered in the City, as compared with
136, the average of the previous ten years. The corrected rate was
103, the average of the years 1901-6 being 117. On deducting the
births and deaths of illegitimate children, it will be seen below that
the infant death-rate has fallen regularly from 125 to 97 per 1,000.
The London rate for 1907 was 116, the average being 147. The
infantile death-rate in England and Wales was 119, being 27 per
1,000 below the average. Table VII, required by the Local Government
Board, shows in detail the ages and causes of death of children under
1 year of age.
It will be noted in the Table above that the decrease in infant
deaths was confined to the 3rd. Quarter of the year, when diarrhoea was
almost absent. Measles, whooping cough, and chest affections increased
the rates in other quarters, together with some diarrhoea in the early
part of the last quarter.
Thirty-four deaths in 1907 were those of illegitimate miants.
The death-rate of such children is much higher than that of legitimate
infants:—