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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 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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Births and Deaths.
During the five weeks ending October 29th there have been
registered 281 births and 149 deaths. These births and deaths are divided
among the five sub-districts as set forth in Table IV. Fifty-two of the deaths were extra-parochial, as follows:—
| St. Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill | 34 |
| St. Mary's Hospital | 8 |
| Western Fever Hospital | 1 |
| St. Bartholomew's Hospital | 1 |
| University College Hospital | 2 |
| St. George's Hospital | 2 |
| Royal Hospital for Incurables | 1 |
| Children's Hospital, Great Ortnond Street | 1 |
| Children's Hospital, Paddington | 2 |
| St. Pancras Infirmary | 1 |
| London Temperance Hospital | 1 |
| Cane Hill Asylum | 2 |
| London County Asylum | 1 |
| Total | 52 |
Thee birth and death-rates, as deduced from the five weeks' statistics, are
as follows:—
All Souls, birth-rate 18.2; death-rate 0.94.
Rectory, birth-rate 14.7 ; death-rate 11.0.
St. Mary, birth-rate 30.4 ; dentil-rate 13.2.
Christ Church, birth-rate 28.1 : death-rate 11.8
St. John, birth-rate 15.8 ; death-rate 14.3.
The whole district, birth-rate 2T9; death-rate 11.6.
The average death-rates for five years (1899 to 1903) for the corresponding
period were as follows:- All Souls, 13.1; Rectory, 13.7; St. Mary, 14.2;
Christ Church, 18.5; St. John, 14.3; the whole district, 14.9.
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: