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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 October 28tb, there have been registered 202 births, and 146 deaths. These births and deaths are divided among the five sub-districts as set forth in Table IV. Seventy-two of the deaths were extra-parochial as follows :—
| St. Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill | 47 |
| North-Western Hospital | |
| University College Hospital | 2 |
| St. Mary's Hospital | 5 |
| Children's Hospital, Paddington | 2 |
| „ ,, Great Ormonde Street | 1 |
| Brompton Hospital for Consumption | |
| Cancer Hospital, Chelsea | 1 |
| Homeopathic Hospital | 1 |
| Colney Hatch Asylum | 2 |
| Hanwell Asylum | 4 |
| Darenth Asylum | 1 |
| Leavesden Asylum | 1 |
| Banstead Asylum | 1 |
| Clayburv Asylum | 1 |
| Total | 72 |
The birth and death-rates, as deduced from the four weeks' statistics
are as follows :—
All Souls, birth-rate 13.9; death-rate 9.2.
Rectory, birth-rate 21.0; death-rate 131.1 .
St. Mary, birth-rate 18.0 : death-rate 15.4.
Christ Church, birth-rate 27.2; death-rate 18.7.
St. John, birth-rate 15.3; death-rate 17.2.
The whole district, birth-rate 19.7; death-rate 14.3.
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The average death-rates for five years (1900 to 1904) for the corresponding
period were as follows:—All Souls, 12.5; Rectory, 13.1 ; St. Mary, 13.2;
Christ Church, 17.0; St. John, 13.2; the whole district, 14.1.
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.