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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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Births and Deaths.
During the four weeks ending November 28th there have been registered 207 births and 150 deaths. These births and deaths are divided among the five sub-districts as set forth in Table IV. Fifty-four of the deaths were extra-parochial, as follow:—
| St. Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill | 30 |
| North-Western Fever Hospital | 2 |
| Western Fever Hospital | 2 |
| St. Mary's Hospital | 3 |
| Royal Chest Hospital | 1 |
| Colney Hatch Asylum | 1 |
| Hoxton Asylum | 1 |
| Banstead Asylum | 1 |
| Hanwell Asjlum | 4 |
| Leavesden Asylum | 2 |
| Friedenheim | 1 |
| University Hospital | 2 |
| Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street | 1 |
| St. Luke's Home | 1 |
| In the Streets | 2 |
| Total 54 |
The birth and death-rates, as deduced from the four weeks' statistics,
are as follows:—
All Souls, birth-rate 18.8; death-rate 9.5.
Rectory, birth-rate 15.1 ; death-rate 17.7.
St. Mary, birth-rate 233; death-rate 12.9.
Christ Church, birth-rate 23 0 ; death-rate 17.1.
St. John, birth-rate 18.4 ; death-rate 17.2.
The whole district, birth-rate 20.2; death-rate 14.7.
The average death-rates for five years (1897 to 1902) for the corresponding
period were as follows :—All Souls, 14.3; Rectory, 19.7 ; St. Mary, 19.6 ;
Christ Church, 19.2 ; St. John, 17.3; the whole district, 17.6.