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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 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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The week ending September 26th was also fine. Minimum temperature,
52.0°; maximum, 67.5; mean, 60.7. Sunshine, 23 per cent. Mean
barometer, 30.0 inches.
During the eight weeks under consideration the temperature was
unusually low, rain frequent, only three weeks really fine, the other five
more or less unsettled.
During the thirteen weeks ending September 26th there have been registered 653 births and 449 deaths These births and deaths are divided among the iive sub-districts as set forth in Tables V and XI. One hundred and eighty-five of the deaths were extra-parochial, as follow:—
| St. Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill | 114 |
| North-Western Hospital | 3 |
| Western Hospital | 7 |
| Children's Hospital, Paddington | 4 |
| „ Great Ormond Street | 1 |
| St. Mary's Hospital | 7 |
| St. Thomas' Hospital | 2 |
| University Hospital | 3 |
| St. G-eorge's Hospital | 4 |
| Brompton Hospital | 2 |
| French Hospital | 2 |
| Italian Hospital | 1 |
| Cancer Hospital | 1 |
| Hanwell Asylum | 7 |
| Colney Hatch Asylum | 3 |
| C.C. Asylum, Darenth | 3 |
| „ Dartford | 1 |
| „ Ilford | 1 |
| Banstead asylum | 1 |
| Claybury Asylum | 1 |
| Leavesden Asylum | 1 |
| Cane Hill Asylum | 1 |
| Tooting Beck | 2 |
| Camberwell House Asylum | 1 |
| Friedenheim | 1 |
| St. Francis Hospital | 1 |
| St. Pancras Infirmary | 1 |
| Holborn Infirmary | 1 |
| Paddington Workhouse | 1 |
| St. Lukes Home | 2 |
| Regent's Canal, Paddington | 1 |
| River Thames | 1 |
| In the Streets Total | 3 |
| 185 |