View report page

7
SECTION A.—STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
GENERAL STATISTICS.
Area (in acres) 1,427.8 (exclusive of water); 1,473 (including water).
Resident population: 1921 census—104,173; 1931 census—97,620.
Registrar-General's estimate of
(a) resident population, mid. 1939—89,160.
(b) average population appropriate to the calculation of death rates—82,040.
Number of inhabited houses: 1921—18,507; 1931—17,575.
Number of inhabited houses and flats (end of 1939) according to Rate Books,
20,548.
Number of families or separate occupiers (1931), 27,352.
Rateable value, £3,641,529.
Sum represented by a penny rate, £13,974.
SOCIAL CONDITIONS AND CHIEF INDUSTRIES.
During recent years St. Marylebone has become increasingly important as a
commercial centre, particularly in the southern part of the Borough bounded by
Oxford Street The chief industry is tailoring, dressmaking and millinery. The
Borough is still, however, mainly a residential area occupied to a great extent by
the professional classes, as indicated by the fact that 44 per cent. males and 30 per
cent. females are engaged in one or other of the occupations in the group which
includes commerce and finance, the learned professions, and public administration.
UNEMPLOYMENT.
The extent of unemployment in the Borough is shown in Table 1, supplied by
the Ministry of Labour and National Service.

Figures subsequent to July, 1939, are not available as the compilation of
unemployment statistics under local authority areas was suspended at the outbreak
of hostilities.
EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS.
Live Births— Total M. F.
Legitimate 750 336 414 Birth Rate per 1,000
estimated resident pop-
Illegitimate 87 41 46 ulation, mid-1939 9.06
Stillbirths 32 Rate per 1,000 total (five and still)
births 37
Deaths (all ages) 1,046 Death Rate per 1,000 estimated
average population 12.62
Rate per 1,000
Deaths from Puerperal causes— Deaths. total (five and
still) births
Puerperal Sepsis
Other Puerperal causes 1 1.22
Total 1 1.22