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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 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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and enteritis (7 and 8) accounted for 17 in 1928, and for 16 in 1929. Respiratory
diseases, the third of the main causes, took 20 in 1928, and in 1929, 18.
The commoner infectious diseases together led to 9 deaths amongst infants.
Four deaths were stated to be due to over-laying, 1 to tuberculosis, 3 to convulsions,
and 14 to pneumona.
Christ Church, which always contributes most largely to the infantile as to
most of the other mortality rates, being the most thickly populated area and that
in which there is most poverty, most overcrowding and most neglect of ordinary
precautions, is again at the head of the list with 43 deaths amongst infants. In
1928 the figure was 46.
In the following table information supplementary to that in the large table is given with regard to deaths in the various sub-districts.
| Sub-District. | Under 1 week. | 1 and under 2 weeks. | 2 and under 3 weeks. | 3 and under 4 weeks. | 4 weeks and under 3 months. | 3 and under 6 months. | 6 and under 9 months. | 9 and under 12 months. | Totals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Souls | 11 | - | - | - | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 21 |
| St. Mary | 6 | — | - | — | 5 | 5 | 3 | — | 19 |
| Christ Church | 8 | 3 | 1 | — | 12 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 43 |
| St. John | 8 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | — | 12 |
| Totals | 28 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 95 |