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Medical Officer's Report.
Council. At the request of the Holborn Board of Guardians copies were
sent for the Members of that Board. It is not necessary therefore to include
it in this Annual Report.
I am glad to learn that the site is to be used, as recommended by me, for
dwellings for the working classes.
I thank the Members and Officers of the Board for the kindness, courtesy
and co-operation that I have received.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
W. A. BOND.
AREA, POPULATION, HOUSES.
The area of the District is 168 acres.
The population for 1898, estimated in the usual way to the middle of the
year, is 30,263.
The number of inhabited houses in the District at the census of 1891
was 3,437. In 1881 the number was 3,244.
Although the resident population is diminishing, the "daily" population
is increasing, on account of the increase in the number of factories, workshops,
and offices.
Just half the population (49.8 per cent.), at the census of 1891 occupied
tenements of only one or two rooms.
BIRTHS.
The total number of births registered during the 52 weeks ending December
31st, 1898, were 813, 396 being male and 417 female children; giving a
birth-rate of 26-9 per thousand. The corresponding rate for the whole of
Registration London was 29.5. 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