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Marylebone 1932

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

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Table: METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF ST. MARYLEBONE CENSUS 1931.TABLE XIV.Local Age and Condition Distributions.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF ST. MARYLEBONE CENSUS 1931.

TABLE XIV.

Local Age and Condition Distributions.

Average Age.Age Distribution per 1,000 of each sex.(Ages last birthday.)Marital condition distribution per 1,000 of each sex.
Males.Females.Males.Females.
M.F.0-45—1920—3940—0—45—192.0—3940—SingleMarriedWidowed and DivorcedSingleMarriedWidowed and Divorced
34.936.4582083314033817138141051743944590302108

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Number of Married Women Number of Females
aged less than 45 per per 1,000 Males.
1,000 females of all ages.
169 1,517
Note.—Generally, it will be found that neighbourhoods of similar residential, commercial or industrial character present similar features in
regard to the constitution of their respective populations.
The Western and North Western. Boroughs of Kensington, Hampstead, St. Marylebone, Chelsea and Paddington possess a preponderance of
females each in excess of 1,300 per 1,000 males and reaching the proportions of 1,547 and 1,544 per 1,000 in Hampstead and Kensington. In those
areas the numbers of children are below the county average and the average ages consequently higher than in other areas. But while, as might be
expected from the higher average ages, the proportion of married and widowed is high in the case of men, for women the reverse is the case, due
no doubt to the inclusion amongst them of considerable numbers of domestic servants.