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Marylebone 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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District births and deaths for the year ended 30th December, 1933, are given in the following table.
A further table giving the vital statistics of separate localities for 1933, and the ten preceding years, will be found amongst the Ministry of Health Tables on page 64.
| Sub-District. | Population estimated to middle of 1933. | Males. | Births, Females. | Total. | Males. | Deaths, Females. | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Souls | 21,564 | 79 | 72 | 151 | 124 | 117 | 241 |
| St. Mary | 24,734 | 106 | 86 | 192 | 149 | 185 | 334 |
| Christ Church | 28,570 | 189 | 173 | 362 | 205 | 203 | 408 |
| St. John | 19,212 | 122 | 89 | 211 | 105 | 136 | 241 |
| The Borough | 94,080 | 496 | 420 | 916 | 583 | 641 | 1,224 |
For purposes of comparison the table for 1932 is reproduced.
1933.
| January-March | April-June | July-September | October-December | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infants under 1 year | 14 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 51 |
| Persons of 65 years and upwards | 185 | 127 | 113 | 178 | 603 |
| 1932. | |||||
| January-March | April-June | July-September | October-December | Total | |
| Infants under 1 year | 29 | 22 | 20 | 21 | 92 |
| Persons of 65 years and upwards | 213 | 135 | 121 | 128 | 597 |
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 65.
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 992.
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 1933 was 51,
and the number of births in that year 916. The infantile mortality rate is therefore
56.
In 1932 the figure was 87 per 1,000 births and this being phenomenally high
gave rise to a considerable amount of comment. The following report prepared
for the Public Health Committee explanatory of some of the variations that occur,
contains some interesting information and has been thought worth reproducing.