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Marylebone 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: The average birth and death-rates for the ten years ending December, 1905, as calculated from the mean population in the middle of the period are as follows:—

The average birth and death-rates for the ten years ending December, 1905, as calculated from the mean population in the middle of the period are as follows:—

Birth-rate.Death-rate.
All Souls17.414.6
St. Mary21.918.7
Christ Church23.917.6
St. John3o.324.8
The whole District22.6l8.2

Table: TABLE I.SHOWING THE COMPARATIVE MORTALITY DURING THE FIFTY-TWO WEEKS ENDING DECEMBER 29th. 1906, FROM CERTAIN CLASSES OF DISEASE AND PROPORTION TO 1,000 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES

TABLE I.

SHOWING THE COMPARATIVE MORTALITY DURING THE FIFTY-TWO WEEKS ENDING DECEMBER 29th. 1906, FROM CERTAIN CLASSES OF DISEASE AND PROPORTION TO 1,000 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES

Total Deaths.- 52 weeks ending Dec. 29th, 1906.Proportion of the deaths to 1,000 deaths from all causes. 52 weeks ending Dec. 29th, 1906.Rale per 1,000 of the population.Mean rate per r.ooo population for corresponding period 1894-1905.
1. Deaths from the chief Zymotic Diseases.2031051582.14
2. Pulmonary, other than Phthisis3311712.573 .66
3. Tubercular2441261 90197

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NOTES.
i. Includes Smallpox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Influenza. Whooping
Cough, Erysipelas, Croup, Fever, and Diarrhoea.
3. Includes Phthisis, Scrofula, Rickets, and Tabes.
SCARLET FEVER.
The average notifications of scarlet fever during the ten
years previous to 1896 was equal to 392, the extremes were 789
cases in 1896 and 269 cases in 1898. During the past year the
number was 387, a number well below the average. The curve
opposite, page 20, traces week by week the distribution of these
387 cases and clearly shows that, speaking generally, the seasonal
variations followed precedent, with an irregular slight burst in
August, and an excess above the average in the first week of
October.
The case fatality was singularly low, viz., 3.7 per cent, of
those attacked.