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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 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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Births and Deaths.
During the four weeks ending June 3rd there have been registered
207 births and 181 deaths. These births and deaths are divided among the
five sub-districts as set forth in Table IV.
80 of the deaths were extra-parochial as follows:—
| St. Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill | 51 |
| St. Mary's Hospital | 5 |
| North-Western Hospital, Hampstead | 1 |
| St. Thomas's Hospital | 1 |
| King's College Hospital | 1 |
| St. George's Hospital | 4 |
| St. Bartholomew's Hospital | 1 |
| University College Hospital | 1 |
| Charing Cross Hospital | 1 |
| West London Hospital | 1 |
| Loudon Temperance Hospital | 1 |
| French Hospital | 1 |
| Children's Hospital, Paddington | 1 |
| London County Asylum, Norwood | 2 |
| Hanwell Asylum | 1 |
| St. Joseph's Home | 1 |
| Royal Chest Hospital | 1 |
| In the Streets | 5 |
| Total | 80 |
The birth and death-rates, as deduced from the four weeks' statistics
are as follows:—
All Souls, birth-rate 15.1; death-rate 14.7.
Rectory, birth-rate 12.4 ; death-rate 15.4.
St. Mary, birth-rate 20.l; death-rate 12.9.
Christ Church, birth-rate 29 6 ; death-rate 22.0.
St. John, birth-rate 18.5; death-rate 20.9.
The whole district, birth-rate 20.2; death-rate 17.7.
The average death-rates for five years (1900 to 1904) for the corresponding
period were as follows:—All Souls, 13.1; Rectory, 15.3; St. Mary, 15.9
Christ Church, 19.5; St. John, 19.5 ; the whole district, 16.7.