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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 : £6,679,740.
Sum represented by a penny rate: £26,180.
Residential units (separate assessments) : 23,942.
Population : 1951 census—Males : 31,649, Females : 44,172. Total : 75,821.
Foreign-born residents : 1951 census—8,872 (approximately 12 per cent. of total population).
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) : mid-1956—73,040.
Registrar General's estimate of the child population : mid-1956—under 1 year : 810 ; 1-4 years
inclusive: 2,590 ; 5-14 years inclusive : 5,400. Total child population: 8,800 (approximately 12 per
cent. of total population).
It is estimated that 49,740 (approximately 68 per cent.) of the Borough's population are aged between
15 and 65 years, and 14,500 (approximately 20 per cent.) over 65 years of age.
EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS
Total M. F.
Live Births—Legitimate 725 364 361 Birth-Rate per 1,000 estimated home population 10.93
Illegitimate 73 35 38
Stillbirtlis—Legitimate 15 6 9 Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 26.383
Illegitimate 7 2 5
Deaths (all ages) 1,137 581 556 Death-Rate per 1,000 estimated home population 15.57
Maternal Mortality—Deaths from " Pregnancy, Childbirth, Abortion " (Registrar General's Code No. 30) Nil
Total M. F.
Deaths of Infants under one year of age—Legitimate 12 7 5
Illegitimate — - -
Death-Rate of Infants under one year of age—All infants per 1,000 live births, 15.04; legitimate
infants per 1,000 legitimate live births, 16.55 ; illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live
births, nil.
Area comparability factors : Births, 0.78; Deaths, 0.71.
Marriages.

The 1956 figure is 41 below that for 1955 and 188 below the average (1,445) for the previous ten years.
The marriage rate in 1956 was 34.12 per 1,000 of the estimated home population.
Deaths.
The total number of deaths (1,137) shown in Table 1 on page 30 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.