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7
POPULATION.
At the middle of 1909 the population of St. Marylebone, estimated by the
Registrar General's method, was 126,027, the population of the Sub-registration
Districts being:—
All Souls 33,460
St. Mary 35,878
Christ Church 37,379
St. John19,310 126,027
The estimated decrease since 1908, when the population was estimated at
126,867, is 840, and the decrease since the census 7,274.
As was pointed out in the Annual Report of 1908, the estimate that the
population of the Borough is decreasing by something like 1,000 per annum is
to be accepted with some reserve, but as the date of the next census—1911—is
drawing near, it is perhaps unnecessary to enter into any discussion on this
point.
The reason for the decrease, if there actually is a decrease, is probably
emigration of persons tempted by improved means of transit to remove to the
suburbs, or displaced by the demolition of small houses which are being replaced
by flats.
BIRTHS.
(a) Registration. The number of births registered during 1909 was 2,534,*
being 25 below the number for 1908. Male births numbered 1,312, and female
1,222. The birth rate per 1,000 was 20'0.

The rate for the Borough in 1908 was 20 2 per 1,000, and the average rate
for the previous 10 years is 21.5, so that there still continues the decline to which
attention was specially directed in the Report of 1908. For the extraordinary
increase in the birth rate of All Souls it is impossible to offer any explanation.
Christ Church, which in 1908 showed an increase of nearly 3 per 1,000 over the
rate for 1907, in 1909 shows a decrease of 1.6.
This figure is exclusive of births occurring in the Borough to persons usually non-resident therein.