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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 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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GENERAL STATISTICS.
Area (acres) 1,427.8 (exclusive of water); 1,473 (including water).
Population (1921). 104,173. (1931) 97,620 (estimated 1931) 93,460.
Number of inhabited houses (1921), 18,507.
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1931) according to Rate Books, 19,764.
Number of families or separate occupiers (1921) 27,214.
Rateable value. £3,138,221.
Sum represented by a penny rate. £12,400.
Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year.
Births-
Total M. F.
Legitimate 947 844 463 Birth Rate, 11.4 Illegitimate 120 67 53
Still Births, 42. Rate per 1,000 total births, 3.9.
Deaths, 1,225. Death Rate, 12.3.
Percentages of total deaths of residents occurring in public institutions, 9.9.
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth—from sepsis, 1;
other causes, 2.
Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age per 1,000 live births :—
Legitimate . 50. Illegitimate . 15. Total 65.
Deaths from Measles (all ages), 2.
Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages), 2.
Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age), 13.