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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Holborn 1904

Report for the year 1904 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Table: The following deaths of Parishioners occurred in Public Institutions outside the Borough:—

The following deaths of Parishioners occurred in Public Institutions outside the Borough:—

INSTITUTION.Number.
St. Giles and Bloomsbury.Holborn.
Holborn Workhouse247
Holborn Workhouse, Mitcham_11
Holborn Infirmary—109
Central London Sick Asylum881
St. Pancras Sick Asylum1—
Strand Sick Asylum1—
Banstead Asylum11
Camberwell Asylum1—
Cane Hill Asylum31
Caterham Asylum22
Claybury Asylum—2
Colney Hatch Asylum2—
Tooting Bee Asylum1—
Hanwell Asylum22
Horton Asylum4—
L.C.C. Asylum, Norwood—1
London County Asylum—3
Friern Barnet Asylum—1
Westminster Hospital—2
Brompton Hospital1—
St. George's Hospital2—
North-Western Fever Hospital12
Joyce Green Hospital1—
Charing Cross Hospital123
King's College Hospital2315
Middlesex Hospital87
London Temperance Hospital2—
Royal Free Hospital—13
Heart Hospital, Soho Square1—
Long Reach Hospital, Dartford1—
Royal Chest Hospital, City Road—1
St. John and Elizabeth Hospital—1
St. Bartholomew's Hospital28
Friedenheim Hospital11
University College Hospital4—
Great Northern Hospital—1
Infants' Hospital, Hampstead—1
St. Thomas's Hospital3—
German Hospital—2
Royal Hospital for Incurables, Wandsworth1—
Private Nursing Homes, &c.55
River Thames—2
Public Way13
H.M. Prison, Wormwood Scrubs1—
Total178248

Table: CORRECTED DEATHS AND DEATH-RATES, 1904.

CORRECTED DEATHS AND DEATH-RATES, 1904.

District.Total Deaths at all ages registered in District.Deaths inPublic Institutions in District.Deaths of nonresidents of Borough registered in District.Deaths of Residents registered beyond the District.Deaths at all ages. Nett.Death Rate for 1904.Corresponding period1903 (52 weeks).
In Borough.Beyond Borough.
Bloomsbury and St. Giles34210376317844414.716.0
Holborn Sub-District792493464324857621.520.8
Whole Borough1,1345965404261,02017.918.3
Registration London74,55516.115.2
No. of Deaths.Death-Rate.
Bloomsbury and St. Giles44414.7
Holborn Sub-District57621.5
Holborn Borough1,02017.9
London74,55516.1
England and Wales549,39316.2

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The death-rate for the year 1904 was only 17.9 per 1,000—the lowest death-rate recorded for Holborn—the
average death-rate for the preceding decennium having been 21.3 per 1,000. The lowest death-rates in previous
years having been 20.0 in 1901, 20.4 in the years 1894 and 1897, and 18.3 in 1903.