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Holborn 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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| Area of Borough in acres | 405*1 | ||||
| Population —estimated to middle of 1929 (as supplied by the Registrar-General) for birth and death rates | 38,380 | ||||
| Population—Census, 1921 | 43,192 | ||||
| Number of inhabited houses (1921) | 6,494 | ||||
| Number of families or separate occupiers (1921) | 9,682 | ||||
| Rateable value 1st November, 1929 | £1,650,869 | ||||
| Rate of 1d in the £ estimated to yield | £6,604 | ||||
| Live Births | Total | M. | F. | 405 | |
| Legitimate | 354 | 183 | 171 | ||
| .Illegitimate | 51 | 15 | 36 | ||
| Annual rate of births per 1,000 population | 106 | ||||
| Still births | 22 | ||||
| Rate per 1,000 total births | 54 | ||||
| Deaths | 488 | ||||
| Annual rate of deaths per 1.000 population | 12.7 | ||||
| Percentage of total deaths occurring in Public institutions | 71 | ||||
| Number of women dying in, or in consequenceof, childbirth | from sepsis | 1 | |||
| „ other causes | 1 | ||||
| Deaths of infants under one year of age per 1.000 births | 89 | ||||
| Deaths from measles (all age«) | 12 | ||||
| „ „ Diphtheria (all ages) | 2 | ||||
| ,, „ whooping cough (all ages) | 1 | ||||
| „ „ diarrhœa (under two years of age) | 5 | ||||
| Zymotic death rate* | 0.39 | ||||
| Tuberculosis death-rate per 100,000 | 112 | ||||
| Excess of registered births over deaths | — | ||||
| Excess of registerel deaths over births | 83 | ||||
* Excluding deaths from Epidemic diarrhœa.
Population and Houses.
The following estimate of papulation as supplied by the Registrar-General for
the year 1929 has been adopted for the calculation of the death-rate and birth-rate
of the Borough for the year 1930—38,380.
The density of the population in 1921, according to the Census of that year, was
107 persons per acre contrasted with 60 persons per acre for the County of London.
The character of population shows wide and striking contrasts, including as it
does the occupants of expensive residential flats, the migratory population in
the large hotels, the student class in the Bloomsbury boarding houses, residents
in large commercial, social and philanthropic hostels, working class population
in model dwellings and tenement lodging houses (many of whom are very poor),
and a relatively large proportion of very poor people in common lodging houses,