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Westminster 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, The United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster]
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The following Table shows the Births and Deaths in each Parish, arranged as to sex.
| ST. MARGARET. | ST. JOHN. | Total of Births in both Parishes. | Total of Deaths in both Parishes. | Deaths in 1856. | Deaths in 10 years average. | Deaths less than 1856. | Deaths less than 10 years average. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Births. | Deaths. | Births. | Deaths. | ||||||||||||||
| M | F. | Total. | M | F. | Total. | M | F. | Total. | M | F. | Total. | ||||||
| 41 | 35 | 76 | 38 | 25 | 63 | 76 | 61 | 137 | 42 | 30 | 72 | 213 | 135 | 178 | 184 | 43 | 49 |
REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION
of the parishes of
St. Margaret and St. John,Westminster,
DURING THE MONTH OF JULY, 1857,
by
BARNARD HOLT, F.R.C.S.
Medical Officer of Health.
To the Members of the District Board of Works.
Gentlemen,
I am happy to inform you, that although the
temperature of the present month has ranged considerably
above the average, and Diarrhoea has consequently been very
prevalent and in the young especially fatal, yet the death-rate
of the united parishes, continues to exhibit a gradual decrease.
The number of Births registered in July was 213, and the
Deaths 135; while the Deaths for the same period in 1856,
amounted to 178, and the average of the previous ten years to
168-8. From the present return however, must be deducted
three, as belonging to other parishes, reducing the number to
132; and if the average of the previous ten years be raised
with a view to comparison for increase of population, the
numbers will be 184.