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Westminster 1858
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, The United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster]
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REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION
op the parishes of
St. Margaret and St. John, Westminister,
DURING THE MONTH OF APRIL, 1858,
by
BARNARD HOLT, F.R.C.S.
Mcdical Officer of Health.
To the Members of the District Board of Works.
Gentlemen,
The number of Births registered during the present month
was 173, and the Deaths 157. The deaths for a similar period
in 1857 amounted to 104, and the average of the previous 10
years to 139-5: if this average, however, be raised with a
view to comparison for increase of population, the numbers
will be 152. Although the number of Deaths in the present
month are 23 less than last month, yet in reference to April
1857, they show the large increase of 45—this being mainly
dependant on the great variations of temperature, and the
generally ungenial state of the atmosphere during the present
month, and are best demonstrated by comparing those diseases
most influenced by the weather in the two years, 1857 and
1858.