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City of Westminster 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
Area (acres) 2,502.7
Population (Registrar General's Estimate, mid-year, 1956) 96,100
Number of inhabited houses (Census, 1951) 27,349
Rateable Value (at 1st April, 1956) £22,459,277
Births.
Live Births (registered)—
Total.
Males.
Females.
Legitimate 1,024 513 511
Illegitimate Ill 56 55
1,135 569 566
Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 11 -08
(Rate for England and Wales, 15-6)
Number of stillbirths (males, 12; females, 12) 24
Rate of stillbirths per 1,000 (live and still) births 20-70
Deaths.
Net deaths (males, 536; females, 415) 951
Death-rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 9-89
(Rate for England and Wales, 11.7)
Deaths from puerperal causes 1
Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births .86
Deaths of infants under 1 year (males, 19; females, 7) 26
Death-rate of infants under 1 year—
All infants per 1,000 live births 22.90
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 22.46
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 27.00
Deaths (all ages) from measles Nil
,, „ whooping cough Nil
„ „ gastritis, diarrhoea and enteritis 6
„ „ cancer 216