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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of Westminster 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Table XVII.—Infant Mortality and Births in Wards. The following table shows the allocation of the net 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, 1938. | Legitimate. | Illegitimate. | Total Infant Deaths, 1938. | Legitimate. | Illegitimate. | 1938—Infant death rate per 1,000 births | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legitimate. | Illegitimate. | Total Rate. | ||||||||
| Conduit | 2,086 | 6 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grosvenor | 13,318 | 44 | 37 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 27.0 | 142.8 | 45.4 |
| Pall Mall | 2,872 | 8 | 7 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Regent | 4,047 | 25 | 18 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Gt.Marlborough | 3,331 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 111.1 | 500 | 181.8 |
| St. Anne | 5,405 | 41 | 28 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 71.4 | 76.9 | 73.1 |
| Covent Garden | 6,655 | 46 | 43 | 3 | 3 | 3 | - | 69.7 | - | 65.2 |
| Charing Cross | 3,210 | 7 | 6 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Strand | 2,052 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Victoria | 36,955 | 430 | 371 | 59 | 17 | 15 | 2 | 40-4 | 33-9 | 39-5 |
| K. St. George | 11,445 | 87 | 75 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 40.0 | 83.3 | 45.9 |
| Hamlet | 6,461 | 29 | 27 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 37.0 | - | 34.4 |
| St. Margaret | 8,671 | 47 | 46 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 43.4 | 1000 | 63.8 |
| St. John | 23,071 | 244 | 228 | 16 | 13 | 13 | - | 57.0 | - | 53.2 |
| Homeless, etc. | - | 11 | - | 11 | 9 | - | 9 | - | 818.1 | 818.1 |
| Total | 129,579 | 1,038 | 900 | 138 | 57 | 41 | 16 | 45.5 | 115.9 | 54.9 |