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City of Mestminster.
Report, of the Medical Officer of Health of the Parish of St. Martinin-the-Fields,
for the months of January, February and March, 1901.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
City of Westminster.
Your Grace, my Lords and Gentlemen,
In the Order of the Local Government Board, dated 8th
December, 1891, respecting the duties of the Medical Officer of
Health, it says:—
(15) "He shall also make an Annual Report to the
Sanitary Authority, up to the Thirty-first day of December in
each year, comprising a summary of the action taken, or
which he has advised the Sanitary Authority to take during
the year, etc."
And it further says:—
"Provided that, if the Medical Officer of Health shall
resign or be removed before the Thirty-first day of December,
in any year, he shall thereupon make the like Report for that
part of the year during which he has held office."
By your direction my Office as Medical Officer of Health having
been abolished, and the duties thereof to cease on the last day of
March, 1901, I therefore, in conformity with the above regulation
of the Local Government Board, beg to submit to you my Report
for the months of January, February, and March, 1901.
Births.
The births registered during these three months, numbered
29—Males 16, Females 13. This number is equal to an annual
birth-rate of 8.9 per 1,000.