Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the half-year ending December, 1895
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TABLE II. ANALYSIS of the vital and Mortal Statistics of the Sanitary District of Holborn and of Registration London after Distribution of Deaths occurring in Public Institutions1 during the Year 1895.
Sanitary Areas. | Estimated Population. Middle of 1895. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1000 Living. | Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases./ | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and Undefined Fev«r. | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis. | Deaths of Children under One Year of Age to 1000 Births. | ||
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Births. | Deaths. | PrincipalZymoticDiseases. | ||||||||||||||||
Holborn—1st Quarter | 32,188 | 229 | 259 | 287 | 32. 1 | 2.2 | 17 | — | 11 | l | I | l | — | — | — | 3 | 29 | 214 |
Do. —2nd Quarter | Do. | 195 | 158 | 24.3 | 19.7 | 1.2 | 10 | — | 4 | — | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | 1 | 20 | 108 |
Do. —3rd Quarter | Do. | 204 | 214 | 25.4 | 267 | 4.2 | 34 | — | 13 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 19 | 23 | 319 |
Do. —4th Quarter | Do. | 193 | 179 | 240 | 22.3 | 3.6 | 29 | — | 17 | 5 | 2 | 4 | — | — | — | 1 | 26 | 207 |
Do. —Year 1895.., | Do. | 821 | 810 | 25.6 | 25.2 | 2.8 | 90 | — | 45 | 6 | 7 | 8 | - | — | — | 24 | 98 | 212 |
Registration London... | 4,392,346 | 133,715 | 85,158 | 30.5 | 19.4 | 2.6 | 11,466 | 55 | 2,628 | 829 | 2,289 | 1,180 | 5 | 596 | 10 | 3,574 | 7,742 | 165 |
* Public Institutions.—Non-Parishioners in Public Institutions within the District are excluded.
Parishioners in Public Institutions without the District are included.
Parishioners in Public Institutions, whether within or without the District, are classified in the respective
Sub-Districts of their previous residence.