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City of Westminster 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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The causes of death are set out in Table IV. There was an increase
among males of deaths from the following causes :—Influenza, cerebrospinal
meningitis, non.pulmonary, tuberculosis, general paralysis, cystitis,
suicide, and circulatory and digestive diseases.
Among females the causes showing an increase were influenza,
measles, septic diseases, syphilis, appendicitis, suicide and diseases of
the circulatory and respiratory systems.
There was a marked increase in deaths from suicide among both
males and females.
The distribution of deaths in the various wards of the City are
shown in the following table, and may be compared with the similar
figures during the four preceding years:—
Table VII.
| . | 1928. | 1929. | 1930. | 1931. | 1932. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| m. | f. | Total. | m. | f. | Total. | m. | f. | Total. | m. | f. | Total | m. | f. | Total | |
| Conduit | 4 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| Grosvenor | 59 | 78 | 137 | 88 | 63 | 151 | 70 | 61 | 131 | 64 | 58 | 122 | 55 | 63 | 118 |
| Hamlet | 16 | 22 | 38 | 18 | 30 | 48 | 20 | 26 | 46 | 19 | 24 | 43 | 17 | 20 | 37 |
| K. St. George | 54 | 57 | 111 | 66 | 80 | 146 | 62 | £6 | 118 | 60 | 67 | 127 | 67 | 70 | 137 |
| Victoria | 231 | 226 | 457 | 249 | 292 | 541 | 222 | 212 | 434 | 234 | 259 | 493 | 214 | 244 | 458 |
| St. Margaret | 29 | 32 | 61 | 51 | 44 | 95 | 30 | 34 | 64 | 28 | 49 | 77 | 38 | 50 | 88 |
| St. John | 173 | 163 | 336 | 298 | 207 | 505 | 186 | 179 | 365 | 219 | 187 | 406 | 226 | 179 | 405 |
| St. Anne | 26 | 23 | 49 | 42 | 28 | 70 | 38 | 18 | 56 | 38 | 25 | 63 | 32 | 21 | 53 |
| Gt. Marlborough | 20 | 17 | 37 | 14 | 15 | 29 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 22 | 12 | 9 | 21 |
| Pall Mall | 31 | 7 | 38 | 35 | 6 | 41 | 20 | 7 | 27 | 23 | 6 | 29 | 23 | 10 | 33 |
| Regent | 25 | 12 | 37 | 26 | 24 | 50 | 24 | 24 | 48 | 23 | 28 | 51 | 30 | 19 | 49 |
| Charing Cross | 12 | 8 | 20 | 24 | 7 | 31 | 12 | 11 | 23 | 22 | 6 | 28 | 11 | 3 | 14 |
| Covent Garden | 35 | 29 | 64 | 39 | 41 | 80 | 26 | 28 | 54 | 42 | 24 | 66 | 36 | 26 | 62 |
| Strand | 46 | 10 | 56 | 36 | 5 | 41 | 39 | 3 | 42 | 28 | 2 | 30 | 36 | ._ | 36 |
| Homeless | 26 | 22 | 48 | 22 | 18 | 40 | 28 | 15 | 43 | 25 | 11 | 36 | 24 | 15 | 39 |
Infantile Mortality.—The corrected death.rate of infants for Westminster
was 65.9 per 1,000 births. The mortality among legitimate
infants was 49.0 per 1,000; that of illegitimate 196.9. The infant
mortality rate for London was 66.
The number of infants dying under 1 year was 76, a decrease of 15 on
the figure of last year. The chief contributory causes of death were
broncho.pneumonia, prematurity, gastro.enteritis and neglect at birth.