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Of the total, 164 at death were aged between 65 and 70; 285 between 70 and
80; 140 between 80 and 90, and 13 between 90 and 100. Over 100—one resident
died in the Infirmary at the advanced age of 103. He was a watchmaker and
resided, prior to being removed to the Infirmary, in Crawford Street. The outstanding
causes of death were as follows:—
Causes— 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
Bronchitis and other
respiratory diseases 180 135 225 184 150 166 165
Nephritis and Bright's
disease 22 24 17 11 15 16 12
Cancer 60 54 68 67 62 58 63
Tuberculosis 22 16 12 15 16 15 14
Influenza 6 18 7 22 12 18 23
Violent deaths 16 13 19 25 18 19 13
Causes of and ages at Death.—General information with regard to the deaths
which occurred in the Borough during the year, mainly as to causes and the ages at
which death took place, is given in Table III of the Ministry of Health series at
page 87.
This same table gives the number of deaths from various specified causes which
occurred in institutions, in hospitals, nursing homes, etc. In each of the groups all
deaths, whether of residents or non-residents, are included, which accounts for the
fact that the total comes up to 1,568.
Fuller information than is possible in the table is given in the following pages,
in which also the figures relating both to causes of death and the ages at which these
causes were operative are analysed.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The infantile mortality rate of any district is the number of deaths of infants
under one year of age per 1,000 of the births which occurred in the same year. The
number of babies under one year who died in St. Marylebone in 1919 was 147, and
the number of births in that year 1,492. The infantile mortality rate is therefore
98.5.
This is an improvement on 1918 when the rate was 110.5, and a great
improvement on 1917 when the figure was 120.9, and the highest since 1905, at or
about which time infantile mortality prevention work was seriously undertaken.
The rate for 1919 marks more or less of a return to the pre-war level, and though it
is always unsafe to prophesy with regard to the behaviour of death rates, it is not too
much to say that it is unlikely there will be further occasion for declaring a rate
anything like so high as that for 1917.