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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 1888
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, The United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster]
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1801, £27-1 500. The Census of 1871, gave the number of
rated housepholdprs as 6.227. and the rateable value at £491,080.
several parishes to the raker ior cleansing the streets and removing the ashes :—
| PARISHES. | Burgesses. | Assistants. | Constables. | Headboroughs | Scavengers. | Surveyors of Highways. | Inquests. | Beadles. | Watchmen. | Raker. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Ann's | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 20 | 330 |
| St. Clements | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 28 | 535 |
| St. George | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 900 |
| St. James | 2 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 54 | 900 |
| St. J ohn Baptist(Savoy) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| St. John Evangelist | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| St. Margaret | 7 | 7 | 15 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 32 | 6 | 36 | 451 |
| St. Martin | 3 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 32 | 731 |
| St. Mary-le-Strand | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 66 |
| St. Paul | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 200 |
| 16 | 16 | 55 | 2 | 80 | 12 | 52 | 31 | 236 | 4127 |
To avoid the inconvenience which would obviously follow
were the tabular returns divided so as to correspond
with the dates of Part II (to 1855) and Part III (to 1888) of
this report, a summary tabular statement has been prepared
from the Reports of the Census Commissioners from 1801
to 1881, in order that the statistical changes in the parishes
may be seen at a glance.