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Marylebone 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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DEATHS IN RELATION TO AGE.
The percentage relation of each group to the total number of deaths in 1931
is shown below:—
Under 1 year 57 per cent.
1 and „ 2 years 0.6 „
2 „ „ 5 10 „
5„ „ 15 1.7 „
15 „ „ 25 „ 3 4 „
25 „ „ 45 98 „
45 „ „ 65 „ 29.5
65 „ upwards 48.3 „
Of the total, 161 at death were aged between 65 and 70; 269 between 70 and
80; 144 between 80 and 90 ; and 18 between 90 and 100.
The age distribution of the deaths that occurred in 1931 is shown in the following table, which gives also, for the purpose of comparison, the figures for each age group in each of the five preceding years.
| Age Periods | Under 1 year | 1 and under 2 years | 2 and under 5 years | 5 and under 15 years | 15 ard under 25 years | 25 and under 45 years | 45 and under 65 years | 65 and upwards | At all Ages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 111 | 33 | 26 | 31 | 45 | 156 | 405 | 549 | 1,356 |
| 1927 | 81 | 27 | 22 | 18 | 37 | 138 | 391 | 548 | 1,292 |
| 1928 | 105 | 37 | 17 | 21 | 34 | 123 | 367 | 534 | 1,238 |
| 1929 | 95 | 36 | 17 | 25 | 44 | 145 | 449 | 642 | 1,455 |
| 1930 | 77 | 25 | 17 | 24 | 38 | 133 | 331 | 526 | 1,171 |
| 1931 | 70 | 7 | 11 | 21 | 42 | 120 | 362 | 592 | 1,225 |
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 77.
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 919.
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 1931 was 70,
and the number of births in that year 1,067. The infantile mortality rate is therefore
65.
The course which the rate has taken is graphically shown in the chart on
page 33, which indicates clearly that the only really serious interruption to the
decline was in 1917.