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APPENDIX No. 2.
ANNUAL REPORT
ON THE
SANITARY CONDITION OF THE PARISHES
OF
St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster,
Ending December, 1892,
By BARNARD HOLT, F.R.C.S.,
Medical Officer of Health.
To the Members of the United Vestry.
Gentlemen,
The Annual Reports of my department have hitherto been
made for the year ending at Lady-day ; but in accordance with
the Order of the Local Government Board made under the new
Public Health Act, the report has now to be made up to 31st
December. You will, therefore, kindly bear in mind that the
first three months of this year's report have already been
reckoned in the one that was laid before you last March.
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 past twelve months.
The number of births registered in the parish during the year
have been 708 males and 710 females, or a total of 1,418 births,
while the deaths have numbered 576 males and 518 females, or a
total of 1,094 deaths; from these, however, must be deducted
38 as the result of accident, which reduces the actual number to
1,056. The deaths during the year 1891 were 1,067, thus
showing a decrease of 11, as compared with the previous year.
The following deaths occurred at the undermentioned ages,
viz.:—
Above sixty, 91; above seventy, 71; above eighty, 26; above
ninety, 4,