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Annual Report on the Health and Sanitary
Condition of the City of Westminster.
(Abridged.)
1917.
To the
Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the City of Westminster.
I have the honour to submit to you my Annual Report for the year
1917.
The usual tabular statements required by the Local Government
Board and Home Office have been prepared, but as these bodies do not
require them to be submitted this year, I have not included them in
this Report. They will, however, be available for issue later if
required.
The Registrar-General has adopted the following estimates of the
Civil Population of Westminster, for the year 1917 :—For death-rates,
122,016 ; for the birth-rate, 130,047.
The former is an estimate of the civilian population, the latter of
the total population based on the assumption that the ratio between
the total and the civilian population is the same in the City as in
England and Wales as a whole.
The actual civil population, however, disclosed through the applications
for various purposes to the Food Control Committee, and through
other sources, appears to be much larger, and is probably somewhere
about 160.000. This is chiefly due to the influx of persons engaged in
various forms of War work. Evidence of this is found in the inquiries
made in connection with notifications, especially of tuberculosis.
As might be expected, the number of births recorded is again lower,
the net number being 1,544, including 10 for whom no address was avail-
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