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The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn.
REPORT
OF
THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1904.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
190, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C.
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Holborn.
Gentlemen,
In this Annual Report for the year 1904, the various statistics for the year refer to the fifty-two
weeks ended Saturday, December 31st, 1904, as adopted by the Registrar-General, and known as the
Registration year.
The death statistics do not exactly correspond with those of the Registrar-General for the
following reasons: The Holborn Union includes the area of the old Holborn District Board of Works,
Clerkenwell and St. Luke's. In many of the deaths registered in outlying public institutions the only
address given is that of the Union, and from enquiries which I have made of the authorities of the
public institutions I have ascertained that the previous addresses of the deceased before removal to
the public institutions were not in this Borough, and these deaths, although returned by the Registrars
as belonging to this Borough, have therefore been excluded.
The London birth-rate was only 27.9 per 1,000, which is again the lowest recorded. The
Holborn birth-rate was 28.6 in comparison with 28.1 for the previous year.
The Holborn death-rate was only 17.9, the lowest death-rate recorded for Holborn, the average
death-rate for the preceding decennium being 21.3 per 1,000. The lowest death-rates in previous
years have been 18.3 in 1903, 20.0 in 1901, and 20.4 in the years 1894 and 1897. It is very
satisfactory that the Holborn death-rate has diminished, although the London death-rate has increased
from 15.2 in 1903 to 16.1 in 1904.
The deaths from zymotic diseases in Holborn were also very low, viz.: 1.73 per 1,000, in
comparison with 2.14 for London generally.