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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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The week ending April 23rd was a bright dry week. Minimum
temperature, 37.2°; maximum, 66.0°; mean, 52.6°. On one day only rain
fell 0.12 inch. Winds N.E. and S.W. Sunshine 40 per cent. of the possibleMean
barometer 29.9 inches.
The week ending April 30th was also fine. Minimum temperature
40.0° ; maximum, 62.0° ; mean, 52.9°. On three days slight showers yielded
0.03 inch of rain. The winds W.S.W. and W.N.W. Sunshine 28.5 per
cent. Mean barometer 29.9 inches.
Births and Deaths.
During the five weeks ending April 30th there have been registered
297 births and 189 deaths.
These births and deaths are divided among the five sub-districts as set forth in
Table IV, 59 of the deaths were extra-parochial, as follows:-
| St. Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill | 35 |
| North-West Fever Hospital | 4 |
| St. Mary's Hospital | 6 |
| Guy's Hospital | 1 |
| University College Hospital | 1 |
| St. Bartholomew's Hospital | 1 |
| Hospital for women, Soho | 1 |
| St. Pancras Infirmary | 1 |
| Central London Sick Asylum | 1 |
| Bellevue, Haverstock Hill | 1 |
| City of London Asylum | 1 |
| Middlesex Asylum | 1 |
| Han well Asylum | 2 |
| Claybury Asylum | 1 |
| Leavesden Asylum | 1 |
| In the Serpentine | 1 |
| Total | 59 |