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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
Marylebone 1901
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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The birth and death-rates, as deduced from the thirteen weeks' statistics,
are as follows:—
All Souls, birth-rate 15.5 : death-rate 16.3.
Rectory, birth-rate 20.0; death-rate 19.4.
St. Mary, birth-rate 24.25: death-rate 18.1.
Christ Church, birth-rate 39.0: death-rate 23.0.
St. John, birth-rate 13.9; death-rate 11.1.
The whole district, birth-rate 22.4; death-rate 17.36.
The average death-rates for five years (1894 to 1899), for the corresponding
Quarter were as follows:—All Souls, 13.8; Rectory, 27.0; St. Mary,
22.3; Christ Church, 23.7; St. John, 21.9; the whole district, 2T9.
The following table gives, as usual, facilities for comparing the relative
mortality from certain classes of disease and proportion to 1,000 deaths
from all causes:
TABLE I.
NOTES.
1, includes Smallpox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Influenza, Whooping Cough
Erysipelas, Croup, Fever, and Diarrhoea.
3, includes Phthisis, Scrofula, Rickets, and Tabes.
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