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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 1933
[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 1933) 94,080.
Number of inhabited houses (1921), 18,507; (1931), 17,575.
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1933) according to Rate Books, 17,508.
Number of families or separate occupiers (1931), 27,352.
Rateable value. £3,246,569.
Sum represented by a penny rate. £12,510.
Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year.
Births—
Total M. F.
Legitimate 802 435 367
Illegitimate 114 61 53} Birth Rate, 9.71
Still Births, 36. Rate per 1,000 total births, 39.
Deaths, 1,224. Death Rate, 12.2.
Percentages of total deaths of residents occurring in public institutions, 11.7.
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth— from sepsis, 3;
other causes, 7.
Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age per 1,000 live births:—
Legitimate 54. Illegitimate 61. Total 56.
Deaths from Measles fall ages), nil.
Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages), 6.
Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age), 12.