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SECTION A.—STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
GENERAL STATISTICS.
Area of Borough : (a) excluding area covered by water, 1,427.8 acres; (b) including area covered
by water, 1,473 acres.
Rateable value of the Borough: £3,514,706.
Sum represented by a penny rate: £14,186.
Number of residential units (separate assessments) : 24,232.
Population : 1951 census—75,764.
Registrar General's estimate of the home population (which includes members of the armed forces
stationed in the area and is used in calculating various rates in this report) : 1954—73,930.
EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS.
Total M. F.
Live Births—Legitimate 789 403 386 Birth-Rate per 1,000 estimated
Illegitimate 68 27 41 home population 11.59
Stillbirths—Legitimate 12 5 7 Rate per 1,000 total (live and still)
Illegitimate 2 1 1 births 16.07
Deaths (all ages) 1,055 577 478 Death-Rate per 1,000 estimated
home population 14.27
Maternal Mortality—Deaths from "Pregnancy, Childbirth, Abortion" Nil
(Registrar General's Code No. 30)
Total M. F.
Deaths of Infants under one year of age—Legitimate 22 13 9
Illegitimate 5 2 3
Death-Rate of Infants under one year of age—All infants per 1,000 live births, 31.50 ; legitimate
infants per 1,000 legitimate live births, 27.87; illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live
births, 73.52.
Marriages.—The following table shows the number of marriages in St. Marylebone each year since
the 1st January, 1944:—
Year No. of Marriages Year No. of Marriages
1944 1,097 1950 1,439
1945 1,583 1951 1,415
1946 1,538 1952 1,358
1947 1,736 1953 1,290
1948 1,657 1954 1,262
1949 1,461
The 1954 figure is 28 below the number for 1953 and 195 below the average (1,457) for the previous
ten years. The rate for persons married in 1954 was 34 per 1,000 of the estimated home population.
Deaths.—The total number of deaths (1,055) shown in Table 1 is inclusive of persons who, though
normally resident in the Borough, died elsewhere in England and Wales, but exclusive of persons
who, though they died in St. Marylebone, were ordinarily resident in other parts of England or
Wales. Deaths of persons ordinarily resident outside the borders of England and Wales are
included in the St. Marylebone figures if they occur in the Borough, as also are those of members
of the armed forces who were stationed in the area.
Deaths in 1954 were 34 fewer than in 1953 and the principal causes were diseases of the heart and
circulatory system, which accounted for 38 per cent, of the totaldeaths, malignant diseases 20 per cent.,
and respiratory diseases including tuberculosis 11 per cent. Sixty-eight per cent, of the deaths
registered were of persons of 65 years of age and over. The expectation of life at birth in England or
Wales is now 67 years for a boy and 72 years for a girl, compared with 48 and 52 years respectively
during the first decade of the present century.