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St Martin-in-the-Fields 1885
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT,
18 8 5.
Annual Report on the Health of the Parish of St. Martin-in-theFields,for
the Year 1885.
To the Vestry of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour of submitting to you my
Sixteenth Annual Report on the health and sanitary
condition of the Parish.
Births.
During the year 1885 there were 350 Births registered,
of which 180 were males, and 170 females.
This is the lowest number of the last 10 years. For
many years past the births have been gradually
decreasing in the Parish, owing, as I stated in my
Annual Report for the year 1884, to so many of the
families of the inhabitants residing in the suburbs.