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Medical Officer's Report.
BIRTHS.
The total number of births registered during the 5 2 weeks ending December
30th, 1899, were 725, 393 being male and 332 female children; giving a
birth-rate of only 24-4 per thousand. The corresponding rate for the whole
of Registration London was 29.4. This is the lowest London birth-rate on
record.
DEATHS.
The total number of deaths of persons in the district, after making the
usual corrections (i.e. excluding those of persons who died in public institutions,
who did not belong to the district, and including those of persons who
belong to the district, but died in public institutions outside the district), for
the 52 weeks was 716, giving a corrected annual death-rate of 24.1 per
thousand. The corresponding rate for London was 19.3.
For 1898 the rates were 24 5 and 18.3 respectively, so that although the
London death rate has increased, that for the Holborn District has diminished.
Further details are given in Tables I. and III.
DEATHS OF CHILDREN UNDER ONE YEAR OF AGE.
There were 162 deaths of children under one year of age; that is, the
number of deaths of children under one year of age to 1000 births was 223.
The corresponding rate for London was 167 per 1000 births.
In the preceding three years, the numbers in Holborn were, 212 per 1000
births in 1895, 189 in 1896, 181 in 1897, and 219 in 1898.