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City of Westminster 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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The causes of death arc set out in Table IV. There was an increase
among males of deaths from the following causes:—Influenza, septic
diseases, syphilis, circulatory diseases, Blight's disease and diseases of
the nervous system.
Among females the causes showing an increase were cancer and
diseases of the circulatory, respiratory and digestive systems.
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.
| — | 1929. | 1930. | 1931. | 1932. | 1933. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total | M. | F. | Total. | |
| Conduit | .1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| Grosvenor | 88 | 63 | 151 | 70 | 61 | 131 | 64 | 58 | 122 | 55 | 63 | 118 | 86 | 55 | 141 |
| Hamlet | 18 | 30 | 48 | 20 | 26 | 46 | 19 | 24 | 43 | 17 | 20 | 37 | 19 | 22 | 41 |
| K St. George | 66 | 89 | 146 | 62 | 56 | 118 | 60 | 67 | 127 | 67 | 70 | 137 | 67 | 65 | 132 |
| Victoria | 249 | 292 | 541 | 222 | 212 | 434 | 234 | 259 | 493 | 214 | 244 | 45S | 212 | 230 | 442 |
| St Margaret | 51 | 44 | 95 | 30 | 34 | 64 | 28 | 49 | 77 | 38 | 50 | 88 | 39 | 39 | 78 |
| St John | 298 | 207 | 505 | 186 | 179 | 365 | 219 | 187 | 406 | 226 | 179 | 405 | 235 | 167 | 402 |
| St Anne | 42 | 28 | 70 | 38 | 18 | 56 | 38 | 25 | 63 | 32 | 21 | 53 | 28 | 31 | 59 |
| St. Marlborough | 14 | 15 | 29 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 22 | 12 | 9 | 21 | 15 | 10 | 25 |
| Pall Mall | 35 | 6 | 41 | 20 | 7 | 27 | 23 | 6 | 29 | 23 | 10 | 33 | 20 | 3 | 23 |
| Regent | 26 | 24 | 50 | 24 | 24 | 48 | 23 | 28 | 51 | 30 | 19 | 49 | 31 | 20 | 51 |
| Charing Cross | 24 | 7 | 31 | 12 | 11 | 23 | 22 | 6 | 28 | 11 | 3 | 14 | 20 | 11 | 31 |
| Covent Garden | 39 | 41 | 80 | 26 | 28 | 54 | 42 | 24 | 66 | 36 | 26 | 62 | 41 | 33 | 74 |
| Strand | 36 | 5 | 41 | 39 | 3 | 42 | 28 | 2 | 30 | 36 | — | 36 | 32 | 3 | 35 |
| Homeless | 22 | 18 | 40 | 28 | 15 | 43 | 25 | 11 | 36 | 24 | 15 | 39 | 28 | 5 | 33 |
Infantile Mortality.—The corrected death-rate of infants for Westminster
was 68 per 1,000 births. The mortality among legitimate
infants was 55.6 per 1,000; that of illegitimate 162.7. The infant
mortality rate for London was 59.
The number of infants dying under 1 year was 75, a decrease of 1 on
the figure of last year. The chief contributory causes of death were
broncho-pneumonia, prematurity, gastro-enteritis and syphilis.