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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 1900
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster]
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TABLE I.—ST. MARGARET AND ST. JOHN, "WESTMINSTER.
For Whole District.
| Population estimated to middle of each Year. | Births. | Deaths under One Year of Age. | Deaths at all Ages. Total. | Deaths in Publie Institutions. | Deaths of Non-re sidents registered in District. | Deaths of residents registered beyond District. | Deaths at all Ages Nett. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year. | Number. | Rate.* | Number. | Rate per 1,000 Births registered. | Number. | Rate.* | Number. | Rate.* | ||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 1890 | 56,085 | 1,396 | 24.5 | 265 | 189 | 1,099 | 19.5 | to March 25th, | No records of the other requirements were kept by Dr. Holt, my predecessor. | |||
| 1891 | 55,651 | 1,449 | 26.0 | 256 | 176 | 1,148 | 20.6 | 1891 and 1892. | ||||
| 1892 | 55,217 | 1,418 | 25.6 | 246 | 173 | 1,094 | 19.8 | 248 | 41 | 376 | ||
| 1893 | 54,783 | 1,350 | 24.6 | 255 | 188 | 1,054 | 19 2 | 259 | 247 | 484 | ||
| 1894 | 54,349 | 1,219 | 22.4 | 180 | 148 | 856 | 15.9 | 238 | 222 | 372 | 1,006 | 18.5 |
| 1895 | 53,915 | 1,278 | 23.7 | 246. | 191 | 872 | 16.1 | 144 | 137 | 419 | 1,154 | 21.4 |
| 1896 | 53,481 | 1,222 | 22.8 | 209 | 171 | 832 | 15.5 | 248 | 239 | 394 | 987 | 18.4 |
| 1897 | 53,047 | 1,238 | 23.3 | 200 | 161 | 847 | 15.9 | 227 | 225 | 383 | 1,005 | 18.9 |
| 1898 | 52,613 | 1,088 | 20.6 | 198 | 182 | 931 | 17.7 | 261 | 258 | 420 | 1,093 | 20.7 |
| 1899 | 52,179 | 1,114 | 21.3 | 229 | 205 | 908 | 17.4 | 196 | 184 | 450 | 1,174 | 22.5 |
| Averages for years | ||||||||||||
| 1894—1899. | 53,264 | 1,193 | 22.4 | 210. | 176 | 874 | 16.4 | 219 | 211 | 406 | 1,069 | 200 |
| 1900 | 51,745 | 1,056 | 18.9 | 208 | 187 | 878 | 15.8 | 266 | 250 | 469 | 1,097 | 197 |
* Rates calculated per 1,000 of estimated population.
Area of District in acres (exclusive of area covered by water), 815; Total population at all ages, 55,760; Number of inhabited
houses, 5,781 ; Average number of persons per house, 9.6. At Census of 1891.
Note.—For the purpose of obtaining an estimate of the population of the whole district and the separate parishes at the middle
of each year, the populations enumerated in April, 1891, and April, 1896, have been taken as a basis for the whole table,
and after correcting the 1891 enumeration by one.fourth of the average annual difference I have each year added
86 to St. Margaret's population, and deducted 520 from St. John, and 434 from the whole district, and I believe
that other variations will render this method fairly accurate.
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