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Rents, is under the jurisdiction of the Holborn District Board ; a small portion
of the Liberty, however (being part of Ely Place), is under the jurisdiction
of the City Commissioners of Sewers for Local Government purposes, although
it is included with the remainder of the Liberty in the Holborn Union for
Poor Law purposes, and in the Holborn Division of Finsbury for electoral
purposes.
Staple Inn and Furnival's Inn, and the Liberty of the Charterhouse are
wholly in the Holborn Union for Poor Law purposes, and are with Gray's Inn
and Lincoln's Inn (which are in no Union) included in Schedule C of the
" Metropolis Management Act of 1855 " for Local Government purposes.
A small portion of Staple Inn and a portion of Furnival's Inn are, however,
in the City of London, and are included in the City for electoral purposes.
VITAL STATISTICS.
In order to give these I must deal wi h the " Holborn " of the RegistrarGeneral,
which differs from that of this District Board, as just mentioned.
The population of Registration Holborn was 33,264 at the census of 1891,
and 35,944 at the census of 1881, and the population, eitimated in the usual
way to the middle of 1895, was 32,186.
The birth and death rates for 1895 are calculated from this estimated
population.
BIRTHS.
The total number of births registered for the last half year was 397,
giving a birth-rate of 247 ; and for the whole year the number was 821, or a
birth-rate of 25.6 per 1000. The corresponding rate for the whole of
Registration London was 30.5.
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), was
393 ; and the total number for the whole year was 810, giving a death rate of
25.2 per thousand. The corresponding rate for London was 19.4.
If correction be made for age and sex distribution, the death-rate of
Holborn was 27.4 per 1000. The rate for England and Wales was 18.7.
I cannot give you the table of deaths, classified according to diseases,
ages, and localities, as required by the Local Government Board, because it
was not till the beginning of the present year that I obtained the sanction of
the Board to have the returns from the Registrars.