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City of Westminster 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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were got out for certain (twenty) sub-divisions of the Ward, for each of
which the population was separately taken at the last census, it appeared
that in the years 1901-04 four of these smaller areas, viz., Nos. 12, 4,
3 and 5, had rates equivalent to 21.1, 23.1, 23 7 and 39.5 respectively,
notwithstanding that common lodging-house and unknown deaths
were excluded.
In 1901 few of these small areas had less than 21 per 1,000,
Nos. 11, 17, 20 and 5 having death-rates of 26.4, 29.4, 30.3 and 44.3
per 1,000 respectively. The deaths assigned to each of the twenty
areas in 1901 and each subsequent year are shown below:—
| Number of Enumeration District. | Population at Census, | Deaths from all causes. | Death Kate in | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901. | 1902. | 1903. | 1904. | 1905. | 1906. | 1907. | |||
| 1901. | 1901. | ||||||||
| 1 | 642 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 21.8 |
| 2 | 2,173 | 48 | 47 | 21 | 19 | 16 | 12 | 7 | 22.0 |
| 3 | 2,750 | 63 | 71 | 63 | 64 | 51 | 36 | 37 | 22.9 |
| 4 | 735 | 16 | 21 | 14 | 17 | 6 | 11 | 22 | 21.7 |
| 5 | 1,918 | 85 | 72 | 82 | 47 | 69 | 56 | 65 | 44.3 |
| 6 | 1,992 | 31 | 39 | 28 | 32 | 32 | 26 | 28 | 15.4 |
| 7 | 1,123 | 16 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 13 | 7 | 15 | 17.0 |
| 8 | 1,904 | 35 | 36 | 34 | 40 | 32 | 34 | 31 | 18.3 |
| 9 | 2,801 | 21 | 45 | 33 | 34 | 40 | 41 | 50 | 10.0 |
| 10 | 2,321 | 47 | 45 | 37 | 46 | 46 | 39 | 33 | 20.2 |
| 11 | 605 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 18 | 32 | 23 | 20 | 26 4 |
| 12 | 2,202 | 44 | 55 | 44 | 43 | 40 | 29 | 35 | 19 9 |
| 13 | 1,386 | 22 | 33 | 24 | 19 | 27 | 18 | 24 | 15 8 |
| 14 | 2,935 | 40 | 44 | 41 | 38 | 61 | 42 | 57 | 13.6 |
| 15 | 1,014 | 16 | 20 | 11 | 18 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 15.7 |
| 16 | 853 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 21 1 |
| 17 | 814 | 24 | 16 | 9 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 29.4 |
| 18 | 632 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 142 |
| 19 | 539 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 18.5 |
| 20 | 198 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 30.3 |
Deaths in common lodging houses and the military hospitals are not included, and
the population of these premises lias also been excluded. Where no address is given,
such deaths have also been excluded.
No. 9 includes the L.C.C. Buildings, Millbank.
It is not practicable to work out the rates for the years subsequent
to 1901 in all the areas with any degree of accuracy as the demolition
or closure of property in some of the areas has altered the number of
persons living thereon. However, having the figures and the rates for
the census year, it is easy to see in the subsequent years if the deaths
have varied up or down, or if they have remained stationary. Thus
No. 2 district, which had 48 deaths in 1901, had only 7 in 1907 ; No. 3
kept fairly even until 1905 when its numbers declined ; No. 6 has not