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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 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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| l Number of Houses as defined in Local Government Board Schedule. | 2 Number of Houses comprising two or more Rateable Properties. | 3 Number of Separate Occupations included in Col. 2. | 4 Actual Number of Rated Occupiers. | 5 Estimated Population Equalisation of Rates Act. | 6 Estimated Population Registrar-General's 1st Method. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909. | ||||||
| St. George Hanover Square | 9,772 | 71 | 2,519 | 12,220 | 75,414 | 73,388 |
| St. Margaret and St. John | 5,473 | 119 | 5,363 | 10,717 | 49,204 | 47,892 |
| St. James | 2,905 | 40 | 622 | 3,487 | 21,418 | 18,990 |
| St. Anne | 1,108 | 50 | 904 | 1,962 | 10,903 | 10,722 |
| St. Martin and Strand | 2,494 | 92 | 2,183 | 4,585 | 18,161 | 17,891 |
| The City | 21,752 | 372 | 11,591 | 32,971 | 175,100 | 168,883 |
According to the proportion existing at the last census, there are
79,534 males and 92,616 females in the estimated population.
Births.
2,520 births were registered in the City in the 52 weeks ending
1st January, 1910. On examination, 39 births were found to be
referable to other districts. Through the courtesy of the Committees of
Management of Endell Street, York Road, Queen Charlotte, and the
Clapham Maternity Lying-in Institutions, of the Master of the Strand
Workhouse at Edmonton, the Secretary of the French Hospital, the
Steward of St. George's Workhouse, Fulham Road, and of other Medical
Officers, I have ascertained that 270 children were born in outlying
institutions, the home address of whose mothers was in Westminster.
The net number of births was, therefore, 2,751 as compared with 2,913
in 1908; the birth-rate, uncorrected, was 14.6, corrected 15.9 per
1,000 persons. The birth-rate for the County of Loudon for 1909 was
24.2, the rate during the preceding ten years averaged 26.1 per 1,000.
The birth-rate in England and Wales was 25.6, the average of the
preceding ten years being 27.8. In each quarter of the year the birthrate
was the lowest recorded since registration was established.