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Although the number of hotels and boarding houses keeps increasing, the
Borough continues to become less residential and more important as a
business centre. The number of factories, workshops, workplaces and offices
keeps increasing so that we are adding to our large and crowded day population
of London's workers.
The population in the 999 L.C.C. tenements in the Borough was estimated
at 3,490. The number of deaths was 29, a death-rate of 8-3 per 1,000, considerably
below the average death-rate for the whole of the Borough.
On the other hand the number of deaths of residents of Common Lodging
Houses in the Borough, which contain 835 beds, was 44 which, calculated on the
number of beds, was a rate of 53 per 1,000.
The birth-rates and death-rates given in this report are the crude rates, that
is to say no correction has been made for sex and age distribution. The population
of the Borough, however, is such that probably a truer indication of the birth and
death incidence would be indicated by rates corrected for such distribution. As.
however, the Registrar-General in his summary tables and statistical review gives
crude rates only, it is thought better for comparison purposes to adopt the same
principle for this report.
The report of the Census, 1921, points out that the City of London and
Holborn stand rather apart from the other Boroughs, owing to the general unsuitability
of their dwellings for private family occupation. Here the relatively high
population of males is similar to that found in the industrial areas; but there are
fewer young children and the population is in consequence above the normal as
regards age.
In rateable value Holbom ranks only lower than the Cities of London and
Westminster and eight other London Boroughs, and is higher than such extended
Boroughs as Battersea, Camberwell. Hackney, Lewi sham and Southwark.

Registered Births.
The total number of births registered as occurring in the Borough was 255
(128 males and 127 females). Of these, 238 were legitimate and 17 illegitimate.