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PART I.
A. STATISTICS.
Population.
Estimated Population for 1924.—The Registrar-General estimates the
population to be 143,000, but for calculating the death rate he deducts
the military population in Barracks and Hospitals, leaving 139,900 as
representing the civil population. This is an increase on the total, but
a decrease on the civilian population. The rates for infectious diseases,
&c., are calculated on the larger figure, for births and deaths on the
lower one. The official year on this occasion consists of 53 weeks, so that
allowance has to be made for this in the calculations.
The proportion of males and females in the Civil population works
out at 59,467 and 80,433 respectively.
Births.
The number of births which took place in Westminster in 1924 was
1,447, of these the home address of 344 was elsewhere, and therefore these
have to be deducted, but 521 children were born to residents of Westminster
in institutions in other parts of London; adding these the net
number was 1,624, a reduction of 128 on the figure for the year 1923.
The fluctuations in past years are shown below. The fluctuations in
past years are shown below. The influence of the opening of Maternity
Wards in the hospitals is shown by the increase in registered births
and in the larger deduction which has to be made for non-residents in
Westminster. It is also shown in the increased number of births
notified.
The birth-rate was 11.6 per 1,000 persons; the London birth-rate
was 18.7 and for England and Wales 18.8—the lowest recorded except
during 1917-19.