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The Metropolitan Baraugh of Holborn
REPORT
OF
THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1903.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
197, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Holborn.
Gentlemen,
In this Annual Report for the year 1903, the various statistics for the year refer to the fiftytwo
weeks ended Saturday, January 2nd, 1903, 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 been therefore excluded.
The London birth-rate 28-4 per 1,000 is the lowest on record. The Holborn birth-rate was
28-1 in comparison with 27*7 in the previous year.
The year has been a record one for this Borough and London in the following various ways:—
The lowest general death-rate.
The lowest death-rate from infantile mortality.
The lowest death-rate from zymotic diseases.
The lowest amount of notifiable diseases.
The largest amount of rainfall.
The largest amount of bright sunshine.
The largest mean hourly horizontal movement of the air.