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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 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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THE YEARS 1909 AND 1938—A COMPARISON.
| 1909 | 1938 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vital Statistics— | ||
| Population (estimated) | 126,027 | 90,680 |
| Births | 2,532 | 802 |
| Birth Rate | 20.0 | 8.84 |
| Deaths | 1,849 | 1,008 |
| Death Rate | 15.4 | 11.0 |
| Infantile Mortality Rate | 102 | 60 |
| Deaths from:— | ||
| Diarrhœal Diseases | 45 | 12 |
| Rate | 35 | .13 |
| Zymotic Diseases (smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, diphtheria and membranous croup, typhus, enteric and continued fevers, diarrhoea and enteritis) | 113 | 18 |
| Rate | 0.89 | 0.2 |
| Tuberculosis (all forms) | 200 | 44 |
| Rate | 1.58 | 0.49 |
| Respiratory Diseases | 324 | 102 |
| Rate | 2.57 | 1.12 |
| Cancer | 156 | 180 |
| Rate | 1.2 | 1.98 |
| Infectious Diseases— | ||
| Diphtheria— | ||
| Cases notified | 109 | 93 |
| Deaths | 9 | 2 |
| Scarlet Fever— | ||
| Cases notified | 458 | 88 |
| Deaths | 8 | 2 |
| Enteric Fever— | ||
| Cases notified | 22 | 8 |
| Deaths | — | — |
| Cerebro-spinal Fever— | ||
| Cases notified | 6 | 4 |
| Deaths | — | — |
| Erysipelas— | ||
| Cases notified | 134 | 35 |
| Deaths | 2 | — |
| Puerperal Fever- | ||
| Cases notified | 3 | 3 |
| Deaths | 1 | — |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis— | ||
| Cases notified | 334 | 105 |
| Deaths | 170 | 33 |
| Maternity and Child Welfare— | ||
| Welfare Centres—attendances | 334 | 45,104 |
| Day nurseries—attendances | — | 20,445 |
| Food— | ||
| Unsound food—seizures and prosecutions | 11 | — |
| Fines and costs imposed | £95 | — |
| Cowhouses (licensed for 105 cows) | 5 | — |
| Milkshops | 264 | 187 |
| Offences against Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Orders | 6 | _ |
| Prosecutions | 3 | — |
| Milk samples examined | 403 | 175 |
| Milk samples adulterated | 23 | — |
| Prosecutions | 15 | — |
| Fines and costs imposed | £30 2s. 6d. | — |
| Ice Cream Premises | 80 | 145 |
| Prosecutions | 3 | — |
| Bakehouses | 78 | 40 |
| Number below ground level | 70 | 29 |
| Food and Drug samples taken | 756 | 1,067 |
| Number adulterated | 41 | — |
| Prosecutions | 31 | — |
| Fines and costs imposed | £93 4s. 6d. | — |
| Butter samples examined | 155 | 291 |
| Number adulterated | 11 | — |
| Cream samples examined | 9 | 24 |
| Number adulterated | 2 | — |
| Common Lodging Houses | 17 | 2 |
| Nuisances—Prosecutions | 30 | 1 |