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Holborn 1909
Report for the year 1909 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Excluding the common lodging houses the corrected phthisis death-rate for
the remaining population in Holborn was l.44 per 1000.
The corrected number of deaths in London was 6337 equal to a rate of 1.31
per 1000, being the lowest recorded.
The following table gives the number of deaths in the Holborn Borough and the death-rates per 1000 (crude and corrected for sex and age distribution of the Holborn population in comparison with London) and the corresponding rates for London, for the 11 years 1899-1909.
| Year. | Holborn Borough. | London. Rate per 1,000 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths. | Death Rate per 1,000. | |||
| Crude. | Corrected. | |||
| 1899 | 207 | 3.12 | 2.74 | 1.85 |
| 1900 | 193 | 2.96 | 2.60 | 1.74 |
| 1901 | 166 | 2.81 | 2.47 | 1.66 |
| 1902 | 182 | 3.06 | 2.69 | 1.60 |
| 1903 | 170 | 2.94 | 2.58 | 1.55 |
| 1904 | 157 | 2.75 | 2.42 | 1.62 |
| 1905 | 149 | 2.65 | 2.32 | 1.42 |
| 1906 | 118 | 212 | 1.86 | 1.44 |
| 1907 | 125 | 2.28 | 2.00 | 1.40 |
| 1908 | 105 | 1.89 | 1.66 | 1.32 |
| 1909 | 108 | 2.01 | 1.76 | 1.31 |
VOLUNTARY NOTIFICATION OF CONSUMPTION.
PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1908.
The Voluntary Notification of Consumption was in the first instance put
into force for a period of 12 months from the 1st January, 1904, the fees to
be paid being the same as for the notifiable diseases; it has been extended from
time to time, on the last occasion for three years 1909-11 inclusive.
On the 18th December, 1908, the Local Government Board, with a view
to affording facilities for the extension of administrative action for the prevention
of tuberculosis, issued an order—The Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1908—in pursuance of Section 130 of the Public Health Act, 1875, as amended
and extended by the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Public Health
Act, 1896, to provide for the notification to Medical Officers of Health of
Sanitary Authorities, of cases of pulmonary tuberculosis occurring amongst the
inmates of Poor Law Institutions, or amongst persons under the care of District
Medical Officers, and for the taking of certain measures in such cases.
As a large proportion of the voluntary notifications formerly received were
Poor Law cases, the great majority are now compulsory notifications under the