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Westminster 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, The United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster]
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REPORT
on the
SANITARY CONDITION
of the parishes of
St.Margaret and St. John,Westminster,
DURING APRIL. MAY AND JUNE, 1857,
by
BARNARD HOLT, F.R.C.S.
Medical Officer of Health.
To the Members of the District Board of Works.
Gentlemen,
The number of Births registered during the
previous three months was 512, and the Deaths 337; while
the Deaths for a similar period in 1856, amounted to 397, and
the average for the previous ten years, to 426. From the
present return, however, must be deducted 15 as belonging
to other Parishes, which reduces the number to 322, and if the
average of the previous 10 years be raised with a view to
comparison for increase of population, the numbers will be
468 : the Deaths now returned are consequently less by 75
than for the same period last year, and 146 less than would
have occurred if the average rate of mortality had prevailed