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Annual Report on the Health and Sanitary
Condition of the City of Westminster.
1910.
To the
Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors
of the City of Westminster.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my Annual Report for the
year 1910.
Returns required by the Local Government Board, and particulars
relating to Factories and Workshops required by the Home
Office, are incorporated therein.
I have again to point out that it is somewhat difficult as the years
get further away from the last census period to estimate the correct
population of Westminster thereon, or make the usual calculations.
Under such circumstances birth and death rates cannot be regarded
as reliable, and any conclusions drawn from a consideration of them
must be guarded.
Apparently the year as a whole has been a healthy one. The
death rate of London is estimated at 12.7 per thousand persons
living, as compared with 16.4 the average of the previous ten years,
and 14.5 for the last five years. For Westminster the rate was
11.0 per thousand, the average being 14.1 for the ten years, 12.8 for the
last five years.
Deaths from the principal infectious diseases were equal to a rate
of 1.14 per 1,000 for London, which is lower than preceding years, the
average of the ten preceding years being 1.8.