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ordinarily resident outside the borders of England and Wales are included in the
St. Marylebone figures if they occur in the Borough.
Applying the Registrar-General's areal comparability factor (1939) of 0.92, the
corrected death-rate per 1,000 of the population was 18.07.
In the previous year, the rate was 12.62 and the number of deaths 1,046.
Causes of and ages at Death.—Information with regard to the deaths which
occurred in the Borough during the year, mainly as to causes, the ages at which
death took place, and the distribution of the deaths among the several Registration
Sub-districts, is given in Table 5, on page 14. This Table conforms to the new classification
of deaths by cause, which is based upon the Fifth Decennial Revision by the
International Commission, and is to be used, on the authority of the RegistrarGeneral,
during the ten-year period commencing 1st January, 1940. It will be noted
that deaths from road traffic accidents are shown separately for the first time.
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 609.
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 1940 was 33 and the
number of births allocated by the Registrar-General for the calculation of infantile
and maternal mortality rates in that year, 492. The infantile mortality rate is
therefore 67.07.
The Registrar-General's figure for legitimate births was 412 and the deaths
amongst legitimate infants numbered 25, giving a rate of 60.68. There were 80
illegitimate births and 8 deaths, the rate being 100.00.
In 1939 the death-rate for all infants per 1,000 live births was 60.64.
The means adopted in the Borough with a view to reducing this rate and generally
improving the life and health chances of infants and children are described in a
separate section of the report—Maternity and Child Welfare.
Table 1 shows, in addition to the causes of infantile mortality, the distribution
of the deaths according to age and locality.