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estimate, the former a low estimate. To alter the ordinary
seasonal distribution, and to protect the Borough at once
from all cases save imported cases, will require a farther
re-vaccination of at least 50,000 adults.
In proportion to its population, St. Marylebone is now
better vaccinated than most of the Metropolis, the
probability is, therefore, that a greater proportional number
of unprotected persons are to be found in other districts,
hence the epidemic will not be extinguished for want of
material.
THE CENSUS, 1901.
The detailed statistical information concerning the
population of the Metropolis and its various divisions and
sub-divisions has been recently published as an official
document and it will be useful to extract with comments
the chief tables relative to the Borough.
Table II. gives the population and inhabited houses
both in 1901 and in 1891 for the Borough and for its five
registration divisions, showing a considerable decrease in
the population as a whole: the decrease being no less than
10,782 in the ten years, or over 1,000 a year. The decrease
has been in every sub-district save that of St. John's Wood,
in which locality there has been a slight increase.
The causes are the general cause by which more and
more the central parts of the Metropolis are utilised for
business purposes, the suburbs for residential; each year
as the Borough will become from the extension of buildings
to the north and north-west more central, there will be a
slow drifting from the area of high to those of lower rents,
added to this the extensive changes wrought by the Great
Central Railway, and the fact that during the decade a vast
number of leases have fallen in and tenement streets have
been converted into streets of a higher residential character.
Distribution of Sex.
The 1901 census gives the distribution of sex as 57,891
males and 75,410 females; this is in the proportion of 100
males to 130 females, in the former census the proportion
was 100 males to 1.28 females, so that proportionately the
sexes in Marylebone are even less equal than formerly.