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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
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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The following is a corrected Table of the Births and Deaths
occurring in each Parish, arranged as to sex:—
QUARTERLY ACCOUNT OF BIRTHS & DEATHS ENDING DECEMBER 1858.
| BIRTHS. | DEATHS. | Corrected Deaths. | Deaths in 1857. | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Margaret. | St. John. | St. Margaret. | St. John. | |||||||||||||||
| M | F. | Total. | M | F. | Total. | Total Births. | M | F. | Total. | M | F. | Total. | Total Deaths. | |||||
| October | 45 | 37 | 82 | 62 | 64 | 126 | 208 | 41 | 33 | 74 | 38 | 30 | 68 | 142 | 134 | 145 | ||
| November | 26 | 27 | 53 | 49 | 43 | 92 | 145 | 47 | 38 | 85 | 39 | 30 | 69 | 154 | 148 | 149 | ||
| December | 30 | 33 | 63 | 57 | 45 | 102 | 165 | 50 | 30 | 80 | 37 | 38 | 75 | 155 | 149 | 138 | ||
| Total | 101 | 97 | 198 | 168 | 152 | 320 | 518 | 138 | 101 | 239 | 114 | 98 | 212 | 451 | 431 | 432 | ||
The following Deaths occurred in the under-mentioned places:—
| Workhouses. | Hospitals. | Prisons. | Barracks. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westminster. | Grenadier Guards. | Coldstream. | Millbank. | House of Correction. | Hyde Park. | Wellington. | ||
| Octobcr | 10 | 13 | 2 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| November | 10 | 13 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. |
| December | 9 | 11 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Total | 35 | 37 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
The general prevalence of diseases of the respiratory organs,
in addition to that of Scarlet Fever, has materially increased
the Quarterly Return of Deaths; yet in comparing the numbers
with those of the corresponding Quarter in 1857, the Deaths
are found to be 1 less, and if increase of population be considered,
would be 75 less:—we may thus fairly consider the
Parishes as representing a fair average state of health. The
temperature in November having reached 20 degrees below
freezing point, greatly increased that month's mortality, as
evidenced by the number of Deaths arising from Phthisis,