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Marylebone 1925

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

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73
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth—from sepsis,
Nil; other causes, 8.
Death rates of Infants under 1 year of age per 1,000 registered births :—
Legitimate, 61 per 1,000; Illegitimate, 78 per 1,000; Total, 63 per 1,000.
Deaths from Measles (all ages), Nil.
Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages), 21.
Deaths from Diarrhœa (under 2 years of age), 25.
GENERAL SUMMARY.
The following is a list of the special premises in the Borough requiring
constant supervision :—
Milk Premises 148
Cowhouses 1
Slaughterhouses 3
Offensive Trades 2
Ice Cream Premises 118
Bakehouses 66
Restaurant, Dining Room and Coffee Shop Kitchens 180
Hotel Kitchens 20
Pastrycooks and Tea Rooms 50
Fried Fish Shops 21
Fish Curers 5
Houses Let in Lodgings 1,079
Workshops and Workplaces 3,278
Total 4,971
Smoke Nuisances.
Number of Observations 693 Number of Nuisances and Complaints
2
Number of Notices 2 Number of Summonses Nil
Housing of the Working Classes.
Number of houses inspected 973 Number of Houses for the
Working Classes—
Tenements in Blocks 504 (a) Erected during year 32 flats
Number of Representations by (b) In course of erection 20 flats
Householders Nil Number of closing Orders Nil
Number of Representations by Number of Houses included in
Medical Officer Nil such Closing Orders Nil
Number of Houses included in Number of Closing Orders
such Representations Nil determined Nil
Number of Houses demolished—
Number of Houses remedied (a) In pursuance of Orders Nil
without Closing Orders Nil (b) Voluntarily Nil
Number of Domolition Orders Nil Number of Houses repaired by
Local Authority Nil
Number of Houses repaired
under Section 3 of the Hous-
ing Act, 1925 Number House closed on
Notice by Onwer that they
could not be made fit Nil
Total Number of Houses in the Number of Houses occupied by
Borough 16,294 the Working Classes 8,131