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City of Westminster 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

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Table XX.Deaths of infants with no known address, or found in streets, parks, &c.:—

CAUSES OF DEATH.Under 1 Week.1—2 Weeks.2—3 Weeks.3—4 Weeks.Total under 4 Weeks.4 Weeks and under 3 Months.3 Months and under 6 Months.6 Months and under 9 Months.9 Months and under 12 Months.Total Deaths under 1 Year.
Congenital defects111
Neglect at birth444
Murder2-22
777

Deaths of children unknown :—

Males.Females.Total
Legitimate11
Illegitimate66

Table XXI.—Infant Mortality and Births in Wards. The following table shows the allocation of the nett births and infant deaths among the various wards in the City, together with the infantile mortality rate for the ward.

Wards.Population, 1931 Census.Total Births, 1936.Legitimate.Illegitimate.Total Infant Deaths, 1936.Legitimate.Illegitimate.1936—Infant death rate per 1,000 births.
Legitimate.Illegitimate.Total Rate.
Conduit2,08674311333.3142.8
Grosvenor13,31847434
Pall Mall2,87266
Regent4,047191541166.652.6
Gt.Marlborough3,331131211183.376.9
St. Anne5,4053929102268.951.2
Covent Garden6,6553028233107.1100.0
Charing Cross.3,21055
Strand2,052
Victoria36,955431376552925466.572.767.2
K. St. George11,4457566976190.9111.193.3
Hamlet6,461363751132.227.7
St. Margaret8,671464331123.221.7
St. John23,071291272191715255.1105.258.4
Homeless, etc.1818716333.3388.8
Total129,5791,06393013370561460.0105.265.8

These figures once again serve to illustrate the danger of making
general deductions from scanty data. In Conduit Ward with a
population as large as that of many country towns there were only 7