View report page

5
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: £5,761,849.
Sum represented by a penny rate: £22,500.
Residential units (separate assessments): 24,301.
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-1957—72,530.
Registrar General's estimate of the child population: mid-1957—under 1 year: 790; 1-4 years
inclusive: 2,550; 5-14 years inclusive: 5,560. Total child population: 8,900 (approximately 12 per
cent, of total population).
It is estimated that approximately 68 per cent. of the Borough's population are aged between 15
and 65 years, and approximately 20 per cent. are over 65 years of age.
EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS
Total M. F.
Live Births—Legitimate 733 382 351 Birth-Rate per 1,000 estimated
Illegitimate 66 36 30 home population 11.02
Stillbirths—Legitimate 13 9 4 Rate per 1,000 total (live and still)
Illegitimate 2 — 2 births 18.77
Deaths (all ages) 1,121 593 528 Death-Rate per 1,000 estimated
home population 15.46
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 21 10 11
Illegitimate 4 4 —
Death-Rate of Infants under one year of age—All infants per 1,000 live births, 31.29; legitimate
infants per 1,000 legitimate live births, 28.65; illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live
births, 60.61.
Area comparability factors: Births, 0.78; Deaths, 0.74

The 1957 figure is 7 below that for 1956 and 167 below the average (1,417) for the previous ten years.
The marriage rate in 1957 was 34.47 per 1,000 of the estimated home population.
Deaths.
The total number of deaths (1,121) shown in Table 1, 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 and 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 H.M. Forces who
were stationed in the area.