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of Saint James, Westminster. I bad on that account
to deduct from the mortality of Saint James,
Westminster, the deaths of fifteen persons who had
died in the parish workhouse. This year I find
that forty-three persons have died in the workhouse
who had come from the Parish of Saint Anne's, so
that the death of the inhabitants of Saint James
was really 746. The average death rate of the
parish for the last twenty years is 741. The death
therefore, of the last year, is slightly above the
average.
With regard to the mortality in the workhouse, I
thought it my duty in the month of February,
1869, to call attention to an increase in the mortality
of the workhouse. The following document,
published at the time by the Vestry, will explain
what took place.
St. James's Westminster, At a vestry-
17th FEBRUARY, 1870.
Present—"W. BTJ11T, Esq., Churchwarden.
Ac. &c. &c.
Mr. Bonthron, as Chairman of the Board of Guardians of
the "Westminster Union, after adverting to an extract from the
Report of the Medical Officer of Health read at the last Vestry,
with reference to the increase of deaths in the Workhouse in
Poland Street, viz.:—
"The deaths in the Workhouse are gradually increasiug. They were
126 in the year 1807, 145 in the year 1868, and 183 in the year
1869. It is for the Board of Guardians to inquire into this matter.