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Marylebone 1907

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

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Table: The death rates in some of the immediately adjoining districts are as under:—

The death rates in some of the immediately adjoining districts are as under:—

Corrected general death-rate.Phthisis.Zymotic Diseases.
Islington15.21.261.24
Hampstead9.00.670.45
Holborn16.62.281.24
Kensington14.80.961.00
Paddington13.461.050.97
St. Pancras15.01.591.18

Table: TABLE I.Showing the comparative mortality during the fifty-two weeks ending 28th December, 1907, from certain classes of diseases :—

TABLE I.

Showing the comparative mortality during the fifty-two weeks ending 28th December, 1907, from certain classes of diseases :—

Total deaths 52 weeks ending 28th Dec. 1907.Rate per 1,000 of the population.
I. Deaths from Zymotic Diseases1180.94
2. Deaths from Phthisis and other Tubercular Diseases2291.79
3. Deaths from Respiratory Diseases ...3862.02

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NOTES.
1. Includes Smallpox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Diphtheria and
Membranous Croup, Typhus, Enteric and other continued Fevers, Diarrhœa
and Enteritis.
2. Includes deaths from Pulmonary Phthisis, Tubercular Meningitis, General
Tuberculosis, Tabes Mesenterica and other forms of Tuberculosis.
3. Includes Bronchitis, Pneumonia, Pleurisy, and other diseases of the
Respiratory Organs.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
Principally owing to the cold and wet summer of 1907, the
death rate of infants under the age of twelve months was a very
low one, viz., 1.02 per thousand registered births. This figure is,
it is believed, considerably lower than any on record. It is
probable, however, that the infantile death rate in many of the
poorer and more crowded districts, could it be separately
recorded, would not be one for congratulation. It may be
possible in future years to group the statistical returns under this
heading in such a manner as to distinguish the lights and shades
of the picture.