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City of Westminster 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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The causes of death are set out in Table VIII. There was a slight
increase among males of deaths from the following causes:—whooping
cough, diphtheria, enteritis, tuberculosis, pneumonia and valvular
disease of the heart.
Among females the causes showing an increase were measles,
diphtheria, tuberculosis, cirrhosis of liver, suicide, 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 XI.
| 1930. | 1931. | 1932. | 1933. | 1934. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total | M. | F. | Total. | |
| Conduit | 8 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | |
| Grosvenor | 70 | 61 | 131 | 64 | 58 | 122 | 55 | 63 | 118 | 86 | 55 | 141 | 64 | 61 | 125 |
| Hamlet | 20 | 26 | 46 | 19 | 24 | 43 | 17 | 20 | 37 | 19 | 22 | 41 | 12 | 24 | 36 |
| K., St. George | 62 | 56 | 118 | 60 | 67 | 127 | 67 | 70 | 137 | 67 | 65 | 132 | 60 | 61 | 121 |
| Victoria | 222 | 212 | 434 | 234 | 259 | 493 | 214 | 244 | 458 | 212 | 230 | 442 | 224 | 235 | 459 |
| St. Margaret | 30 | 31 | 64 | 28 | 49 | 77 | 38 | 50 | 88 | 39 | 39 | 78 | 43 | 40 | 83 |
| 8t. John | 186 | 179 | 365 | 219 | 187 | 406 | 226 | 179 | 405 | 235 | 167 | 402 | 183 | 144 | 327 |
| St. Anne | 38 | 18 | 56 | 38 | 25 | 63 | 32 | 21 | 53 | 28 | 31 | 59 | 27 | 34 | 61 |
| Gt. Marlborough | 8 | 8 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 22 | 12 | 9 | 21 | 15 | 10 | 25 | 12 | 19 | 31 |
| Pall Mall | 20 | 7 | 27 | 23 | 6 | 29 | 23 | 10 | 33 | 20 | 3 | 23 | 22 | 10 | 32 |
| Regent | 24 | 24 | 48 | 23 | 28 | 51 | 30 | 19 | 49 | 31 | 20 | 51 | 16 | 25 | 41 |
| Charing Cross | 12 | 11 | 23 | 22 | 6 | 28 | 11 | 3 | 14 | 20 | 11 | 31 | 17 | 5 | 22 |
| Covent Garden | 26 | 28 | 54 | 42 | 24 | 66 | 36 | 26 | 62 | 41 | 33 | 74 | 24 | 31 | 55 |
| Strand | 39 | 3 | 42 | 28 | 2 | 30 | 36 | — | 36 | 32 | 3 | 35 | 32 | 3 | 35 |
| Homeless | 28 | 15 | 43 | 25 | 11 | 36 | 24 | 15 | 39 | 28 | 5 | 33 | 20 | 15 | 35 |
Infantile Mortality.—The corrected death-rate of infants for Westminster
was 66 per 1,000 births. The mortality among legitimate
infants was 55.1 per 1,000; that of illegitimate 139. The infant
mortality rate for London was 67.
The number of infants dying under 1 year was 77, an increase of 2 on
the figure of last year. The chief contributory causes of death were
broncho-pneumonia, prematurity, and gastro-enteritis.