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STATISTICAL, INCLUDING REMARKS ON THE NATURAL
AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
A summary of particulars required by the Ministry of Health are set
forth on the preceding page and further reference to certain points mentioned
will be found in other parts of the report.
The estimated population of the City of Westminster for the year 1925
is given by the Registrar-General as 142,600 (the population as enumerated
at the 1921 Census was 141,578). The civilian population, which excludes
those belonging to the military forces in barracks and hospitals, numbered
139,600, and for the purpose of calculating the death-rate this number is
taken. Both gross and net totals show a decrease on the corresponding
figures for 1924, which were 143,300 and 139,900 respectively.
The City of Westminster occupies an area in Central London bounded
on the north side by Oxford Street, on the east by a portion of Chancery
Lane and proceeding as far asTemple Gardens, and in the west it extends in
one direction as far as the Broad Walk in Kensington Gardens. The Royal
Albert Hall and Imperial Institute are contained within its borders.
South of the latter institution, however, the western boundary of the City
runs east of Sloane Street, Chelsea, and continues to the river along Chelsea
Bridge Road. Throughout part of its course the Thames forms a boundary
to the City. Westminster is rich in historical associations and its claim
to antiquity may be gathered from the fact that according to the schedule
issued by the Office of Works there are to be found in the City a greater
number of ancient monuments than in any area in the British Isles. It
contains the residences of the Sovereign and of the Heir-Apparent, the
Houses of Parliament and the chief administrative departments of central
government.
The City of Westminster is of the nature of an administrative, business
and social centre. There is no industry in which the inhabitants are
engaged which is sufficiently large in itself to afford grounds from which
deductions may be made regarding the influence of a particular occupation
on the health of the inhabitants. It must be remembered that of all the
occupied males and females in Westminster by far the greater proportion
do not reside in the City. In this respect there is a close comparison with
the City of London. The day population of Westminster (Census 1921)