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Holborn 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn, Metropolitan Borough]
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The following table gives the number of deaths in the Holborn Borough and the death-rates per 1,000 (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 1903-1913, inclusive.
| Year | Holborn Borough. | London. Rate per 1,000 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths. | Death-Rate per 1,000. | |||
| Crude. | Corrected. | |||
| 1903 | 170 | 2.98 | 2.62 | 1.57 |
| 1904 | 157 | 2.80 | 2.46 | 1.65 |
| 1905 | 149 | 2.71 | 2.38 | 1.46 |
| 1906 | 118 | 2.18 | 1.92 | 1.49 |
| 1907 | 125 | 2.36 | 2.07 | 1.46 |
| 1908 | 105 | 1.97 | 1.73 | 1.39 |
| 1909 | 108 | 2.11 | 1.85 | 1.40 |
| 1910 | 98 | 1.96 | 1.72 | 1.23 |
| 1911 | 96 | 1.96 | 1.72 | 1.35 |
| 1912 | 95 | 1.98 | 1.74 | 1.35 |
| 1913 | 89 | 1.87 | 1.60 | 1.30 |
Notification of Consumption.
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908, 1911, & 1912.
The Voluntary Notification of Consumption which had been in force from
the 1st January, 1904, and had been partly superseded by the Public Health
(Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908 (Poor Law Cases), and the Public Health
(Tuberculosis in Hospitals) Regulations, 1911, was finally and completely superseded
by the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1911, which came into
force on the 1st January, 1912. These Tuberculosis Regulations of 1911 were
superseded by the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912, which made
compulsory the notification of all forms of tuberculosis, and came into force on
the 1st February, 1913.
Excluding duplicates the total number of notifications received was 204, of
which 58 were private cases, 73 hospital cases, and 73 poor-law cases.
Of the total number 56, or 27.4 per cent., were residents of common lodging
houses, and were all but 1 at once or soon afterwards removed to workhouse
infirmaries. With few exceptions the remaining 148 lived in tenement houses,
and 60 of these were removed to infirmary or hospital, 89 remaining at home,
but some of these had previously been in infirmaries, hospitals or sanatoria.
In previous annual reports I have given details of the action that is taken
and the various results that were obtained from the enquiries made.
After death, or removal to infirmary or hospital, disinfection is advised.
Consent for this was obtained in 33 cases.