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Holborn 1902
Report for the year 1902 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Boards, and the rates have been calculated on the estimated populations as revised by the-published Census Returns, 1901:—
| Year. | Holborn Borough. | London. Rate per 1,000. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths. | Rate per 1,000. | ||
| 1894 | 196 | 2·75 | 1·69 |
| 1895 | 225 | 3·19 | 1·77 |
| 1896 | 215 | 3·03 | 1·68 |
| 1897 | 197 | 2·87 | 1·72 |
| 1898 | 220 | 3·26 | 1·74 |
| 1899 | 207 | 3·12 | 1·85 |
| 1900 | 193 | 2·96 | 1·74 |
| 1901 | 166 | 2·81 | 1·66 |
The Registrar-General has published the death-rates in the old London Districts from the year 1896 to the year 1900 inclusive and since then for the areas of the new Boroughs. I have also included the figures for 1901 and 1902 as obtained from the Returns sent to me:—
| Year. | St. Giles and Bloomsbury. | Holborn. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1896 | 2·91 | 3·24 | |
| 1897 | 2·99 | 2·76 | |
| 1898 | 3·34 | 3·17 | |
| 1899 | 3·13 | 3·08 | |
| 1900 | 2·99 | 2·85 | |
| 1901 | 3·07 | 2·62 | |
| 1902 | 2·92 | 3·19 | |
Although from the Registrar-General's return for the year 1901 the phthisis death-rate
in this Borough (2.81) was the highest of all the London Boroughs, the following table shows that
in districts of other Boroughs in which there is great density of population the death-rates from
consumption are also very high and in some of them even higher than in the sub-divisions of this
borough:—
Death-rates from Consumption in Sanitary Areas for the Years 1899, 1900, and 1901.
| 1899. | 1900. | 1901. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holborn— | |||
| St. Giles and Bloomsbury | 3·13 | 2·99 | 2·81 |
| Holborn Sub-Division | 3·08 | 2·85 | |
| City of London | 2·19 | 2·50 | 2·29 |
| Finsbuby— | |||
| St. Luke's | 3·53 | 3·16 | 2·19 |
| Clerkenwell | 2·32 | 2·57 | |
| South wark - | |||
| St. George-the-Martyr | 3·53 | 3·66 | 2·51 |
| Newington | 2·62 | 2·21 | |
| St. Saviour's | 3·44 | 3·11 | |
| Westminster — | |||
| St. Margaret and St. John | 3·31 | 2·41 | 1·89 |
| St. George, Hanover Square | 1·36 | 1·36 | |
| St James | 2·11 | 1·64 | |
| St. Martir-in-the-Fields | 1·82 | 2·37 | |
| Strand | 2·70 | 3·26 |
In the eight years 1894 to 1901 inclusive the number of deaths from consumption in this
Borough was 1,619. On the other hand the total number of deaths in the same years from the
six principal epidemic or zymotic diseases, viz., small-pox, measles, scarlet-fever, diphtheria
whooping-cough and enteric fever was only 870, or in other words for every 100 deaths from the
six principal epidemic diseases in Holborn there were 186 deaths from consumption.