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City of Westminster 1958
[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, 1958) | 95,440 | ||
| Number of inhabited bouses (Census, 1951) | 27,349 | ||
| Rateable Value (at 1st April, 1958) | £20,075,000 | ||
| Births | |||
| Live Births (registered)— | |||
| Legitimate | 919 | 487 | 432 |
| Illegitimate | 113 | 58 | 55 |
| 1,032 | 545 | 487 | |
| Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population (Rate for England and Wales, 16.4) | 10.81 | ||
| Number of stillbirths (males, 15; females, 9) | 24 | ||
| Rate of stillbirths per 1,000 (live and still) births | 22.72 | ||
| Total live and still births | 1,056 | ||
| Illegitimate live births per cent, of total live births | 10.95 | ||
| Deaths | |||
| Net deaths (males, 546; females, 507) | 1,053 | ||
| Death-rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population (Rate for England and Wales, 11.7) | 11.03 | ||
| Deaths from puerperal causes | Nil | ||
| Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births | Nil | ||
| Deaths of infants under 1 year (males, 12; females, 7) | 19 | ||
| Death-rate of infants under 1 year— | |||
| All infants per 1,000 live births | 18.41 | ||
| Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births | 18.49 | ||
| Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births | 17.69 | ||
| Neonatal mortality | 13.56 | ||
| Deaths (all ages) from measles | Nil | ||
| ,, „ whooping cough | Nil | ||
| ,, ,, gastritis, diarrhoea and enteritis | 2 | ||
| „ ,, cancer | 245 | ||