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APPENDIX No. 2.
ANNUAL REPORT
ON THE
SANITARY CONDITION OF THE PARISHES
OF
St. Margaret and .St. John, Westminster,
Ending March, 1891,
By BARNARD HOLT, F.R.C.S,
Medical Officer of Health.
To the Members of the United Vestry.
Gentlemen,
As is my usual custom, I shall commence with recording
the number of births and deaths that have been returned during
the year, and shall afterwards place before you, in detail, the
several interesting sanitary improvements that have been effected
during the year.
The number of births registered during the present year has
been 689 males, and 707 females, or a total of 1,396 births, while
the deaths have numbered 581 males and 518 females, or a total
of 1,099 deaths; from these, however, have to be deducted 46 as
having been due to accidents, which reduces the actual number
to 1,053. The deaths during the year 1890 were 1,113, thus
showing a decrease of 60 as compared with the previous year.
The following is a tabular statement of births and deaths
arranged as to sex:—