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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 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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Births and Deaths.
During the five weeks ending November 3rd there have been registered
278 births, and 176 deaths. These births and deaths are divided among
the four sub-districts as set forth in Table IV.
Seventy of the deaths were extra-parochial as follows:—
| St. Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill | 46 |
| St. Mary's Hospital | 7 |
| North-Western Fever Hospital | |
| Western Fever Hospital | 1 |
| St. George's Hospital | 1 |
| Charing Cross Hospital | 1 |
| Guy's Hospital | 1 |
| City of London Asylum | 1 |
| Banstead Asylum | 1 |
| St. Pancras Infirmary | 1 |
| St. Joseph's Home | 2 |
| In the streets | 1 |
| Total | 70 |
The birth and death-rates, as deduced from the five weeks' statistics
are as follows:—
All Souls, birth-rate 15.0; death-rate 9.1.
St. Mary, birth-rate 16.7; death-rate 14.0.
Christ Church, birth-rate 34.2; death-rate 15.2.
St. John, birth-rate 18.3; death-rate 18.3.
The whole district, birth-rate 21.7; death-rate 13.7.
The average death-rates for ten years (1896 to 1905) for the corresponding
period were as follows:—All Souls, 11.8; St. Mary, 13.9; Christ Church,
16.9; St. John, 15.6; the whole district, 14.4.
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.