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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 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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| Institutions within the District receiving sick and infirm persons From outside the District. | Institutions outside the District receiving sick and infirm persons from the District. | At the following Nursing and Surgical Homes within the District, deaths of residents and non-residents have been certified. |
|---|---|---|
| St. Thomas' Hospital Tooting Bee Asylum Throat Hospital, Soho University College Hospital | ||
| 131, Upper Richmond Rd. Victoria Hospital, Chelsea Westminster Hospital Westminster Union Workhouse | ||
| Western Fever Hospital Warrington Lodge, Warrington Crescent |
By the courtesy of the Metropolitan Medical Officers of
Health, I am able to give your Council the statistics for the
whole of the other London Boroughs for purposes of comparison.
Such comparison, however, must be made with full cognisance of the fact that this Borough is in many respects a favoured one.
| Borough. | Birth Rate. | Corrected Death Rate. | Death Rates from | Infant Mortality per 1,ooo Registered Births. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seven chief Zymotic Diseases. | Phthisis. Pulmonalis. | ||||
| Battersea | 25.1 | 13.3 | 1.23 | 1.19 | 107 |
| Bermonsdey | 32.1 | 18.8 | 2.31 | 1.85 | 146 |
| Bethnal Green | 32.6 | 17.1 | 2.4S | 1.62 | 133 |
| Camberwell | 25.1 | 13.1 | 0.09 | 1.12 | 107 |
| Chelsea | 20.2 | 14.5 | 1.38 | 1.27 | 108 |
| Deptford | 262 | 14.6 | 1.37 | 1.30 | 123 |
| Finsbury | 30.3 | 19.0 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 115 |
| Fulham | 28.5 | 13.3 | 1.67 | 1.21 | 117 |
| Greenwich | 23.3. | 12'9 | 1.16 | 1.14 | 120 |
| Hackney | 24.3 | 13.9 | 1.48 | 1.50 | 117 |
| Hampstead | 15.1 | 8.7 | 0.41 | 0.79 | 69 |
| Holborn | 27'8 | 15.7 | 1.02 | 1.89 | 76 |
| Islington | 24.3 | 13.6 | 1.01 | 1.21 | 103 |
| Kensington | 19.0 | 140 | 0.92 | 1.00 | 122 |
| Lambeth | 27.7 | 13.5 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 93 |
| Lewisham | 22.8 | 11.0 | 1.14 | 0.85 | 87 |
| London (City) | 14.4 | 12.6 | 0.15 | 1.24 | 65 |
| Paddington | 21.4 | 12.3 | 0.89 | 0.97 | 105 |
| Poplar | 31.9 | 16.3 | 2.18 | 1.49 | 123 |
| St. Marylebone | 20.2 | 15.4 | 0 94 | 1.70 | 104 |
| St. Pancras | 23.4 | 15.0 | 1.07 | 1.53 | 115 |
| Shoreditch | 32.2 | 18.3 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 138 |
| Southwark | 28.1 | 16.3 | 1.76 | 1.88 | 136 |
| Stepney | 32.5 | 16.6 | 2.56 | 1.5 | 130 |
| Stoke Newington | 19.1 | 12.7 | 0.86 | 1.04 | 98 |
| Wandsworth | 22.2 | 10.2 | 0.82 | 0.83 | 98 |
| Westminster | 16.5 | 12.3 | – | 1.18 | 100 |
| Woolwich | 24.1 | 11.6 | 0.92 | 1.23 | 95 |